home
英[h??m]
美[hom]
- n. 家，住宅；產地；家鄉；避難所
- adv. 在家，回家；深入地
- adj. 國內的，家庭的；有效的
- vt. 歸巢，回家
- n. (Home)人名；(德、芬)霍梅；(英、尼)霍姆
詞態變化
復數:?homes;
中文詞源
home 家，住所
來自古英語ham,村莊，屋子，居住地，來自Proto-Germanic*haimaz,詞源同hamlet,haunt.來自PIE*kei,聚居，定居，安家，詞源同city,civil.現詞義局限為家，住所。
英文詞源
- home
- home: [OE] Old English hām meant ‘place where one lives, house, village’. The last of these survives only in place-names (such as Birmingham, Fulham), and it is the ‘house, abode’ sense that has come through into modern English home. Its ancestor was prehistoric Germanic *khaim-, which also produced German heim, Dutch heem, Swedish hem, and Danish hjem. It is not clear where this came from, although some have connected it with Latin civis ‘citizen’.
- home (n.)
- Old English ham "dwelling, house, estate, village," from Proto-Germanic *haimaz (cognates: Old Frisian hem "home, village," Old Norse heimr "residence, world," heima "home," Danish hjem, Middle Dutch heem, German heim "home," Gothic haims "village"), from PIE root *tkei- "to settle, dwell, be home" (cognates: Sanskrit kseti "abides, dwells," Armenian shen "inhabited," Greek kome, Lithuanian kaimas "village;" Old Church Slavonic semija "domestic servants").
'Home' in the full range and feeling of [Modern English] home is a conception that belongs distinctively to the word home and some of its Gmc. cognates and is not covered by any single word in most of the IE languages. [Buck]
Home stretch (1841) is originally a reference from horse racing. Home base in baseball attested by 1859 (home plate by 1867; home as the goal in a sport or game is from 1778). Home economics first attested 1899. Slang phrase make (oneself) at home "become comfortable in a place one does not live" dates from 1892. To keep the home fires burning is from a song title from 1914. To be nothing to write home about "unremarkable" is from 1907. Home movie is from 1919; home computer is from 1967. - home (v.)
- 1765, "to go home," from home (n.). Meaning "be guided to a destination by radio signals, etc. (of missiles, aircraft, etc.) is from 1920; it had been used earlier in reference to pigeons (1862). Related: Homed; homing. Old English had hamian "to establish in a home."
雙語例句
- 1. " Home " is a much more emotive word than " house ".
- home (家)是遠比 house (住屋)更能激起感情的字眼.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 2. It had once been the home of a wealthy nobleman.
- 這里曾是一個有錢貴族的宅邸。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. His destination was Chobham Common, a long way from his Cotswold home.
- 他的目的地是喬伯姆公地，那里和他在科茨沃爾德的家離得很遠。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. His house was the only settled home I had as a child.
- 他的房子是我兒時唯一固定的家。
來自柯林斯例句
- 5. Come along, lad. Time for you to get home.
- 來吧，小伙子。你該回家了。
來自柯林斯例句