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
- 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。 - Instead we learned or acquired our mother tongue by communicating with the people around us.
我们的母语是通过和我们周围人们的交流而学习或获得的。 - 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。 - His mother tongue was Korean but spoke fluent English.
他的母语是朝鲜语，但英语流利。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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？ - 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 think they all love you, I like to listen to your mother tongue with their frenzied shouting your name.
我想他们都很爱你，我很喜欢听他们用你的母语疯狂喊你的名字。 - He wrote the article in his mother tongue.
他用母语写的文章。