mother country

英 [ˈmʌðə kʌntri]

美 [ˈmʌðər kʌntri]

n.  祖国; (控制别国的)母国

牛津词典

noun

• 祖国
  the country where you or your family were born and which you feel a strong emotional connection with
• （控制别国的）母国
  the country that controls or used to control the government of another country

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 祖国
  Someone'smother countryis the country in which they or their ancestors were born and to which they still feel emotionally linked, even if they live somewhere else.
  1. Dr Kengerli looks to Turkey as his mother country.
     肯戈理博士视土耳其为自己的祖国。
• N-SING (控制别国的)母国；宗主国
  If you refer tothe mother countryof a particular state or country, you are referring to the very powerful country that used to control its affairs.
  1. Australia, New Zealand, and Canada, had no colonial conflict with the mother country.
     澳大利亚、新西兰和加拿大跟它们的宗主国不曾有殖民冲突。

英英释义

noun

• the country where you were born
  Synonym:fatherlandhomelandmotherlandcountry of originnative land

双语例句

• Smith thought that the mother country could not benefit from the colony, which were burdens.
  他认为，殖民地是母国的负担，对母国没有益处，主张放弃对殖民地的贸易垄断；
• In the image of the Byzantium Empire, Yeats expressed his wish for his mother country Ireland and disclosed his aristocratic ideal.
  借助拜占庭这面镜像，叶芝实现了对诗人本身和祖国爱尔兰进行言说的最终目的。
• The wealth of sovereignty over national law and international supervision of the fund, as sovereign wealth of our mother country and the lack of funds by the law of the proposal put forward.
  本文通过对主权财富基金国内法监管和国际法监管的分析，对我国作为主权财富基金母国和东道国所缺少的法律依据提出完善的建议。
• The enumeration of certain products requiring direct shipment to England suggests their special importance from the perspective of the mother country.
  列出须直接运到英国的商品清单说明这些商品对于母国来说特别重要。
• The mother country of so many argentines.
  那是无数阿根廷人的祖国。
• The other problem with Mexicans is that they retained ties to the mother country. Or, at least, some did.
  墨西哥人尚存在这样一个问题，那就是他们与其祖国依然存在千丝万缕的联系，或者至少某一些人是如此。
• Though more numerous than the Thracian turks, the Albanians in Greece have less power, for they lack the support of a strong mother country and the economic resources available to those who have lived in the same place for a long time.
  他们人口比西色雷斯土耳其人多，但没什么权利地位，因为他们背后没有一个强大祖国的支持，也没有经济来源保证他们在一个地方长期生活。
• In my experience they have a very different idea of own nationality, compared with their parents who spent their formative years in the mother country.
  在我的经验中他们对自己的国籍与在原籍生活过的父母相比有非常不同的看法。
• China is the recognized soybean mother country and owns the most plenty of soybean genetic resources in the World.
  大豆起源于中国，中国是世界上大豆遗传资源最为丰富的国家，也曾经是世界上最主要的大豆生产国和出口国。
• The Important Contributions of the Compatriots in Taiwan to the Victory of Anti-Japan War in Mother Country
  台湾同胞在祖国抗日战争中的重要贡献