单词
home
英 [h??m]
美[hom]
基本信息
- n. 家，住宅；产地；家乡；避难所
- adv. 在家，回家；深入地
- adj. 国内的，家庭的；有效的
- vt. 归巢，回家
- n. (Home)人名；(德、芬)霍梅；(英、尼)霍姆
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词态变化
复数:?homes;
中文词源
home 家，住所
来自古英语ham,村庄，屋子，居住地，来自Proto-Germanic*haimaz,词源同hamlet,haunt.来自PIE*kei,聚居，定居，安家，词源同city,civil.现词义局限为家，住所。
英文词源
- home
- home: [OE] Old English hām meant ‘place where one lives, house, village’. The last of these survives only in place-names (such as Birmingham, Fulham), and it is the ‘house, abode’ sense that has come through into modern English home. Its ancestor was prehistoric Germanic *khaim-, which also produced German heim, Dutch heem, Swedish hem, and Danish hjem. It is not clear where this came from, although some have connected it with Latin civis ‘citizen’.
- home (n.)
- Old English ham "dwelling, house, estate, village," from Proto-Germanic *haimaz (cognates: Old Frisian hem "home, village," Old Norse heimr "residence, world," heima "home," Danish hjem, Middle Dutch heem, German heim "home," Gothic haims "village"), from PIE root *tkei- "to settle, dwell, be home" (cognates: Sanskrit kseti "abides, dwells," Armenian shen "inhabited," Greek kome, Lithuanian kaimas "village;" Old Church Slavonic semija "domestic servants").
'Home' in the full range and feeling of [Modern English] home is a conception that belongs distinctively to the word home and some of its Gmc. cognates and is not covered by any single word in most of the IE languages. [Buck]
Home stretch (1841) is originally a reference from horse racing. Home base in baseball attested by 1859 (home plate by 1867; home as the goal in a sport or game is from 1778). Home economics first attested 1899. Slang phrase make (oneself) at home "become comfortable in a place one does not live" dates from 1892. To keep the home fires burning is from a song title from 1914. To be nothing to write home about "unremarkable" is from 1907. Home movie is from 1919; home computer is from 1967. - home (v.)
- 1765, "to go home," from home (n.). Meaning "be guided to a destination by radio signals, etc. (of missiles, aircraft, etc.) is from 1920; it had been used earlier in reference to pigeons (1862). Related: Homed; homing. Old English had hamian "to establish in a home."
双语例句
- 1. " Home " is a much more emotive word than " house ".
- home (家)是远比 house (住屋)更能激起感情的字眼.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 2. It had once been the home of a wealthy nobleman.
- 这里曾是一个有钱贵族的宅邸。
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- 3. His destination was Chobham Common, a long way from his Cotswold home.
- 他的目的地是乔伯姆公地，那里和他在科茨沃尔德的家离得很远。
来自柯林斯例句
- 4. His house was the only settled home I had as a child.
- 他的房子是我儿时唯一固定的家。
来自柯林斯例句
- 5. Come along, lad. Time for you to get home.
- 来吧，小伙子。你该回家了。
来自柯林斯例句
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