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| 1 | C/U the place where you live 家；住家；家庭 |
| We go to a school close to our home. 我们上的学校离家很近。 |
| a child in need of a loving home 一个需要家庭关爱的孩子 |
| at home Peter isn’ t at home today. 彼得今天不在家。 |
| away from home I hate being away from home too long. 我不喜欢离家太久。 |
| | 1a | U the place where your parents live and where you grew up 家乡；家 | | at home He is 43 and still living at home. 他43岁了，还住在家里。 | | leave home (=permanently stop living with your parents) I left home when I was 18. 离开家（指不再与父母生活在一起） | |
| | 1b | U the country or city where you live 故乡；本国 | | make sth your home We decided to make Jamaica our home. 我们决定把家安在牙买加。 | | at home a great opportunity in markets both at home and abroad 国内外市场的大好机会 | | back home (=in my country) Back home, the weather is much better. 回国 | | be home to California is home to many vineyards. 加利福尼亚有许多葡萄园。 | |
| | 1c | relating to your home rather than your work 家庭的；家用的 | | a home computer 家用电脑 | | home address/home telephone number Write your home address at the top of your letter. 在信的上方写上家庭地址。 | | home life (=family relationships) My home life is very important to me. 家庭生活 | |
| | 1d | done , made , or experienced at home 家常的；自制的 | | home cooking/shopping/banking 家常菜/家居购物/家庭银行服务 | | home comforts 舒适的家居环境 | |
| | 1e | relating to things that happen within a country , rather than between different countries 国内 | | These cameras sell well in the home market. 这些相机在国内市场很畅销。 | | the minister for home affairs 内政部长 | |
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| 2 | C a building for people to buy or rent 房屋；住宅 |
| One thousand new homes are being built in the area. 这个地区正在盖1,000套新的住宅。 |
| There is a shortage of homes for rent. 缺乏供出租的房屋。 |
| | 2a | a building where people who need special care can live and be looked after , for example an old-people’ s home or a children’ s home （供需要特殊关照的人居住的）疗养院，养育院（如老人院或儿童之家） | | They didn’ t want to put their mother in a home. 他们不想把母亲放在养老院里。 | | +for a home for orphans 孤儿院 | |
| | 2b | a building where animals, especially dogs or cats, who have no owner are looked after （无主动物，尤指狗或猫的）收容所 | | the city dogs’ home 市流浪狗收容所 | |
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| 3 | U the place where a sports team is based and plays most of its games. A team that is playing at home is called the home team . If a team plays at the place where the opposing team is based, they are playing away （球队的）主场 |
| at home United are playing at home tonight. 联队今晚在主场比赛。 |
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| 4 | singular +of the place where something first started or was first made 发源地；发祥地 |
| Scotland is the home of golf. 苏格兰是高尔夫球的发源地。 |
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| 5 | U a place on a sports field that a player must try to get to in order to score a point in some sports （某些球类比赛中的）得分点 |
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| 6 | U computing a home page |
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| 7 | C the place where a particular group of people or type of plant or animal lives （人或动植物的）生息地，栖息地 |
| +of These wetlands are the home of a great variety of wildlife. 这些湿地是许多野生动物的栖息地。 |
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| - | be/feel/look at home
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| to befeellook relaxed and comfortable in a particular place or situation |
| 舒适自在；无拘束 |
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| Daniel looks very at home with the children. 丹尼尔看来和这些孩子是熟不拘礼。 |
| They did everything they could to make me feel at home. 他们千方百计让我感到自在。 |
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| - | don’ t try this at home
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| used for warning someone not to try to do something that you are showing themThis is often used by television presenters. |
| 请勿在家模仿（电视节目主持人的常用语） |
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| - | home from home
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| a place where you feel as relaxed as you do in your own home |
| 像家一样舒适的地方；使人感到舒适自在的场所 |
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| New York felt like a home from home for Jim. 对吉姆来说纽约就像是第二故乡。 |
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| - | homesweet home
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| used for saying that you are happy to be back in your own home |
| 在家真好（用于表示回到家中高兴的心情） |
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| - | make yourself at home
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| to feel relaxed and behave in the same way as you do in your own home |
| 别拘束 |
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| Make yourself at home while I go and find those photographs. 你自己请随便。 |
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| - | what’ s .... when it’ s at home?/who’ s .... when they’ re at home? BRITISH humorous
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| used for saying that you do not know what or who someone is talking about |
| 讲什么？在讲谁？ |
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| See also | | - write | | - hearth | |
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