SAD/UNHAPPYfeeling unhappy because you are a long way from your home 想家的,思乡的► see thesaurus at sad
—homesickness noun [uncountableU]
Examples from the Corpus
homesick• As we passed through Yorkshire I was terrified - and a little homesick.• One is home all the time, but feeling homesick.• In Sheffield he was homesick and missed his girlfriend.• He is homesick and very much wants to return to the church.• They were both gazing out of the window like homesickboys, as if desperately wishing to be elsewhere.• Sampras confessed that he was homesick for America after five weeks in Europe.• They were both gazing out of the window like a couple of homesickkids.• They're not only caused by foreignspecies planted by homesick Midwesterners.• Or Al Davis' homesickpangs.• We all felt exceedingly homesick that night as we lay under the clouds and in the mud.• Most people get homesick the first time they leave home.• My sister was very homesick when she first went to college.
VERBS | ADVERB | PREPOSITIONVERBS➤be, feel想家;感覺想家▸➤become, get開始想家▸➤make sb使某人想家◇Seeing other families together made him terribly homesick.看到別的家庭共享天倫,他加倍思念故鄉。ADVERB➤desperately, terribly, very思鄉心切;很想家▸➤a little, slightly, etc.有點兒/略微有些想家PREPOSITION➤for思念◇She felt homesick for her country.她思念自己的祖國。