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
- We've all heard of Chinese people who can't speak a single dialect of their mother tongue.
我们都听到了中国人民谁不能讲母语了单一的方言。 - 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。 - Including your mother tongue and your second foreign language tool.
第二是语言技能，包括你的母语和作为工具的第二外语。 - How do we learn our mother tongue?
我们是怎样学会母语的呢？ - It's my mother tongue.
这是我的母语。 - The scholar is well versed in Latin, not to speak of English which is his mother tongue.
那位学者精通拉丁语，至于他的本族语英语就更不用说了。 - 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。 - No, we'd better save us from losing our mother tongue.
不，我们最好别把母语都忘了。 - The target language should be your mother tongue and it's necessary for you to know basic Chinese.
该目标语种必须是你的母语，并且懂基本的中文。 - 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。