homelands

英 [ˈhəʊmlændz]

美 [ˈhoʊmˌlændz]

n.  祖国; 家乡; (南非共和国过去在种族隔离制度下设立的、有一定自治权的)黑人定居地
homeland的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 祖国
  Yourhomelandis your native country.
  1. Many are planning to return to their homeland.
     很多人正计划回到自己的祖国去。
• “黑人家园”（指过去南非种族隔离制度下的黑人有一定自治权的地区）
  Thehomelandswere regions within South Africa in which black South Africans had a limited form of self-government.

双语例句

• Certain kinds of fish and birds travel thousands of miles to their homelands in order to give birth.
  一些鱼类和鸟类也会千里迢迢回到它们的故乡生息繁衍。
• Yemen is one of the main homelands of the South Semitic family of languages, which includes the non-Arabic language of the ancient Sabaean Kingdom.
  也门是闪米特家庭语言（包括古萨巴王国的非阿拉伯语）的主要故乡之一。
• He will need to include that Jerusalem and refugees will be dealt with in these negotiations and add that the final agreement will end the conflict and all claims, and provide mutual recognition for Jewish and Palestinian homelands.
  他需要额外指出的是，耶路撒冷和巴勒斯坦难民问题也要在未来的和谈中加以解决，最终达成的协定要终止纷争和一切领土要求，要让巴以双方相互承认对方的国家。
• In fact, our constitutional laws were drawn up at a time when then-migrants were given a choice of either going back to their homelands or to accept this nation and help develop it.
  事实上，我们的宪制性法律的制定时在当时的移民给予了选择，要么回到自己的家园或接受这个国家，并帮助它发展的时间。
• The International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade honours the millions of Africans violently removed from their homelands and cast into slavery.
  奴隶制和跨大西洋奴隶贸易受害者国际纪念日是纪念那些数百万给强行赶出家园，沦为奴隶的非洲人。
• I'm afraid I can't get in touch with them after we returned to our separate homelands.
  “汉语桥”完了，我们回国，我很担心我以后联络不到她们。不是每个韩国人都有这个机会。
• She says more needs to be done to help those seeking to flee troubled homelands.
  她说，要帮助那些逃离充满不安的家园的人，还有许多事情要做。
• Diasporas communities that live outside, but maintain links with, their homelands have been with the world at least since the Jews were exiled to Babylonia.
  至少自从犹太人被流放到巴比伦尼亚以来，侨民群体（居住在国外但与祖国仍然保持联系的群体）就一直存在于世界各地。
• Indeed, these might even be less riskythan their homelands 'governments.
  真的，这些公司的风险可能比他们所在国的政府都少。
• Under the waves of industrialization and urbanization, both the protagonists choose to leave their rural homelands for big cities to earn their livings there.
  在工业化与城市化的冲击下，刘高兴和嘉莉都选择离开家乡农村到大都市谋生。