与home有关的词组学习

2024-09-18 英语词汇

【摘要】：大家知道，“home”除了有“家和故乡”的意思，还有“本国的”的意思。比如：His books were a success in his home country/market, but failed to find an audience abroad.他

大家知道，“home”除了有“家和故乡”的意思，还有“本国的”的意思。

比如：

His books were a success in his home country/market, but failed to find an audience abroad.

他的书在本国市场很畅销，可在国外却没有什么读者。

此外，“home”还有“在主场比赛的”的意思，也就是我们平时说的“东道主”。

the home team/side

主队/东道主

a home ground

主场

a home match/game

主场比赛

the home strip (= clothing worn by a team when they play a home match)

主场队服

home advantage (= the improved chance of success that playing at home gives to a team)

主场优势

home base = home plate （人的）住所；（机构的）总部

I've made that site my personal home base on the Web.

我已经将这个网站打造成了我自己的网络基地。

home from home 像家一样舒适的地方；宾至如归的地方

The hotel was a real home from home.

那家宾馆真的像家里一样舒服。

home help （做家庭清洁工作的）家务助手

She was thinking that she must reprimand her home help the next morning.

她心想明天上午一定要好好训斥那个干家务的帮手。

home in on sth/sb 瞄准，对准/集中注意力于

这里的home是动词，有两种意思。第一种是“瞄准，对准”。

The missile homed in on the ship.

导弹瞄准了那艘船。

第二种是“集中注意力于”。

The report homed in on the weaknesses in the management structure.

这篇报告重点论述了该管理体系的弱点。

home truth 令人不愉快的事实

He decided it was time to tell her a few home truths.

他觉得是时候告诉她一些坏消息了。

hit home 使充分意识到（情况有多糟糕或困难）

The full horror of the war only hit home when we started seeing the television pictures of it in our living rooms.

在家中客厅里看到电视上的图片后，我们才充分意识到这场战争有多恐怖。