mother tongue
英 [ˌmʌðə ˈtʌŋ]
美 [ˌmʌðər ˈtʌŋ]
n. 母语; 本国语
牛津词典
noun
- 母语；本国语
the language that you first learn to speak when you are a child
柯林斯词典
- 母语;本国语;本族语
Yourmother tongueis the language that you learn from your parents when you are a baby.
英英释义
noun
- one's native language
双语例句
- I speak nothing but our mother tongue. What's your native language?
我只说我们的本国语。你的本国语是什么？ - It means that learners should compare and contrast their mother tongue with the language they are learning.
语言学习者应该把他的母语和他正在学习的外语比较对照一下。 - That is, English is the mother tongue used in these countries.
也就是说，英语是这些国家使用的母语。 - I want to talk with people when they are using their mother tongue.
我想要和别人交谈，用她们的民族标准语。 - It's my mother tongue.
这是我的母语。 - By the end of the week, I couldn't even remember one word of my Mother Tongue.
在这个星期快结束之时，我甚至记不起我母语中的任何一个词藻。 - Children's acquiring of the mother tongue is a long process.
儿童对母语的习得将是一个漫长的过程。 - His mother tongue was Korean but spoke fluent English.
他的母语是朝鲜语，但英语流利。 - Mother tongue and the first foreign language both transfer the vowel pronunciation of the second foreign language.
母语和第一外语对第二外语的元音发音都存在着迁移作用。 - 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。