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

• Though far away from their mother country, their celebrations are just as authentically Chinese.
  虽然远离祖国，他们的庆祝活动也同样原汁原味中国味。
• England is not my mother country, but English is my mother tongue.
  英国不是我的祖国，但英语却是我的母语。
• And when, by the mid-twentieth century, Canada finally broke free from the hold of its old mother country, it seemed to step right into the firm maternal grasp of the United States.
  直到二十世纪中期，加拿大在终于摆脱了英国的掌控时，又一意孤行地投入了美国的怀抱。
• Canada was still regarded in London as a dominion which would always come to the aid of the mother country without asking too many questions, but times had changed.
  伦敦仍把加拿大看作其自治领地，对援助母国会不加疑问，招之即来，然而时代已经变了。
• 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 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 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
• The development of national area is significant to vindicate mother country's unification, social stabilization and realize countrywide modernization.
  民族地区的发展对维护祖国统一和社会稳定、实现全国的现代化有着至关重要的作用。
• 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。
• This island is a colony; however, in most matters, it is autonomous and receives no orders from the mother country.
  那个岛是个殖民地，然而在大多数问题上它享有自治权，可以不接受宗主国的命令。