1COME FROM/ORIGINATEthe place where someone was born, used especially when talking about someone famous 〔尤指名人的〕出生地
Stratford-upon-Avon was Shakespeare’s birthplace.
埃文河畔的斯特拉特福是莎士比亚的出生地。
2COME FROM/ORIGINATEthe place where something first started to happen or exist 发源地,发祥地
New Orleans is the birthplace of jazz.
新奥尔良是爵士乐的发源地。
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birthplace• We visited Elvis' birthplace in Tupelo, Mississippi.• There even was debate over his birthplace.• Both men no doubt were vexed by the unorthodoxy of their own birthplaces.• Muslims are expected to make at least one pilgrimage to Mecca, Muhammad's birthplace.• In November it also became the birthplace of Rolling Stonemagazine.• Walden Pond has been called the birthplace of modern environmentalism.• Cataloguing the birthplaces of proteins will be a giant step towards solving the mysteries of human biology.• Dallas is the birthplace of the computer chip, the chickenfajita and the frozenmargarita.• He has yet to prove, though, that this patch is the real McCoy, the birthplace of a hot-spot plume.• We visited the birthplace of Lenin in Ulyanovsk.