mother tongue

英 [ˌmʌðə ˈtʌŋ]

美 [ˌmʌðər ˈtʌŋ]

n.  母语; 本国语

法律

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
  Synonym:maternal languagefirst language

双语例句

• 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；
• No, we'd better save us from losing our mother tongue.
  不，我们最好别把母语都忘了。
• 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。
• 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。
• He wrote the article in his mother tongue.
  他用母语写的文章。
• His mother tongue is Portuguese.
  他的母语是葡萄牙语。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。