1country 国家SANCOUNTRY/NATION [only before noun] your native country, town etc is the place where you were born 出生地的 → home
They never saw their native land again.
他们再也没见到故土。
He spent most of his professional life outside his native Poland.
他大部分的职业生涯都没在祖国波兰度过。
2.native New Yorker/population/inhabitants etca person or people who come from or have always lived in a particular place 土生土长的纽约人/当地人口/当地居民等
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native New Yorker/population/inhabitants etc• Although he was a native New Yorker, like many denizens of that city he had a romanticview of country life.
English is not the native language for almost half of our overseas visitors.
我们有差不多一半的海外游客母语不是英语。
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native language/tongue• English is not his native language.• But dialectfeatures are not errors in this sense at all, but are characteristics of a pupil's native language.• It is perfectly possible to communicate with little or no such similarity or else children would never learn their native tongue.• Some of the early researchers took a pessimisticview of what we would lose with the disappearance of native languages.• But for most of us our native tongue is alive and constantly shifting.• And as they learn their native language, they also use language to learn other things.
4plant/animal 植物/动物HBPHBA growing, living, produced etc in one particular place 土生土长的,当地的SYN indigenous
Singapore has many native species of palm.
新加坡有很多土生的棕榈树种。
native to
These fish are native to North America.
这些鱼原产于北美。
5art/custom 艺术/习俗SACOME FROM/ORIGINATE [only before noun] native customs, traditions etc are related to people who lived in a particular country before European people arrived there 土著的;土著人的
the native traditions of Peru
秘鲁的土著传统
stalls selling native jewelry
售卖土著首饰的货摊
native folklore
土著民俗
6natural 天生的KNOW something [only before noun] a native ability is one that you have naturally from birth 天生的
her native wit
她天生的机智风趣
7go nativeSAIMITATEto behave, dress, or speak like the people who live in the country where you have come to stay or work – used humorously 入乡随俗〔幽默用法〕
Austen has been living in New Guinea so long he’s gone native.
奥斯汀在新几内亚住了那么久,已经入乡随俗了。
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go native• Austen has been living in Papua New Guinea so long he's gone native.• There would be no going native at Zhanjiang.
1COME FROM/ORIGINATEa person who was born in a particular place 出生于某地的人
native of
a native of Switzerland
一个出生在瑞士的人
2LIVE SOMEWHEREsomeone who lives in a place all the time or has lived there a long time 本地人,当地人;久居某地的人
native of
He has become a native of Glasgow.
他已经成了格拉斯哥人。
3[usually plural] not politeSANCOME FROM/ORIGINATE a word used by white people in the past to refer to the people who lived in America, Africa, southern Asia etc before European people arrived, now considered offensive 土著人〔旧时白人称呼先于欧洲人居住在美洲、非洲和南亚等地的当地人〕
He was not certain whether the natives were friendly.
他不敢肯定土著人是否友好。
4HBPHBAa plant or animal that grows or lives naturally in a place 当地土生的植物[动物]