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
- This is because the deeply rooted thinking that the complete mother tongue exchanges environment educate habit.
这是因为完全的母语交流环境造就的根深蒂固的思维习惯。 - Besides Chinese, my mother tongue, I can also speak EnglishFrench.
除了我的母语汉语外，我能讲英语和法语。 - It's a must for all those whose mother tongue is not English.
对于那些母语不是英语的外国学生来说，托福考试是必须要通过的。 - A pep talk I therefore encourage you to take both English and your mother tongue language very seriously.
（教练对运动员的）鼓励性讲话，精神讲话因此，我鼓励你认真对待英语和母语； - 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。 - You're flunking english. that's your mother tongue, and stuff.
你的英文挂了。那是你的母语，这还聪明。 - No, we'd better save us from losing our mother tongue.
不，我们最好别把母语都忘了。 - Today students of English, even if English is their mother tongue cannot understand his jokes.
今天学习英语的学生，甚至是以英语为母语的人们，仍然听不懂的玩笑。 - 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。 - 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。