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ldoce_160_ghome1 /həʊm $ hoʊm/ ●●● S1 W1 noun  
1  place where you live 居住的地方 [countableC, uncountableU]HOME the house, apartment, or place where you live 家，住所，窝
 They have a beautiful home in California.
他们在加州有个美丽的家。
 Good luck in your new home!
祝你在新家一切顺利！
at home
 Last night we stayed at home and watched TV.
昨晚我们待在家里看电视。
away from home
 He was spending more and more time away from home.
他不在家的时间越来越多。
work from/at home (=do your work at home instead of at a company office) 在家办公
 A family of birds made their home (=started living) under the roof.
一窝鸟在屋顶下安了家。
→5  See picture of stable 马厩, hutch 兔笼, kennel 狗窝 ... →4  See picture of 见图 home
2  family 家庭 [countableC, uncountableU]HOME the place where a child lived with his or her family 家，家庭
 Jack left home when he was 16.
杰克16岁离开家独立生活。
 Were you still living at home (=with your parents)?
那时你仍和父母住在一起吗？
 Carrie moved out of the family home a year ago.
卡丽一年前搬离了父母的家。
3  where you came from/belong 家,家乡 [countableC, uncountableU]HOME the place where you came from or where you usually live, especially when this is the place where you feel happy and comfortable 〔使人感到亲切、愉快的〕家，家乡，故乡
 She was born in Italy, but she’s made Charleston her home.
她出生在意大利，但在查尔斯顿安了家。
back home
 The folks back home don’t really understand what life is like here.
家乡的父老乡亲并不了解这里的生活是怎样的。
4  your country 本国COUNTRY/NATION [uncountableU] the country where you live, as opposed to foreign countries 本国，国内
at home
 auto sales at home and abroad
国内外市场的汽车销量
back home
 He’s been travelling, but he’s kept up with what’s going on back home.
他一直在旅行，不过他一直关注着国内发生的事情。
5  be/feel at home 
a) USED TO/ACCUSTOMED TOto feel comfortable in a place or with a person 舒适自在，不拘束
be/feel at home in/with
 I’m already feeling at home in the new apartment.
我在新公寓里已经习惯了。
 After a while we began to feel at home with each other.
过了一会儿我们就无拘无束起来。
b) USED TO/ACCUSTOMED TOto feel happy or confident about doing or using something 驾轻就熟，运用自如
be/feel at home with/in
 Practise using the camera until you feel quite at home with it.
练习练习怎么用这台录像机，直到熟练为止。
Examples from the Corpus
be/feel at home• Would she ever feel at home in this relentless, pitiless city?• But it is here, at this Hillcrest hospital, where he feels at home.• This immediate social environment is merely that in which he feels at home.• With the politics of action too, I feel at home.• The g was less, and that made me feel at home.• As it was with Kip, Martinez seemed to be at home with himself.• Edwin was the only one in the family who felt at home in Los Angeles and remained there.
6  property 财产 [countableC]HOME a house, apartment etc considered as property which you can buy or sell 住宅，住房
 Attractive modern homes for sale.
漂亮的现代化住宅待售。
7  for taking care of SB 用于照料某人 [countableC]HOME a place where people who are very old or sick, or children who have no family, are looked after 〔老人或病人的〕疗养所；〔儿童的〕养育院
 an old people’s home
老人院
 I could never put Dad into a home.
我决不会把爸爸送进养老院。
→ children's home, nursing home, rest home
8  make yourself at home spokenRELAXED used to tell someone who is visiting you that they should relax 请随便，别拘礼〔招呼客人时说〕
Examples from the Corpus
make yourself at home• Make yourselves at home. Would you like a cup of coffee?• Here, sit down and make yourself at home.• They float right through the glass and make themselves at home.• Two weeks later a young married couple were the new tenants filling the house, making themselves at home.• Nothing like making yourself at home.• Perspective 6: People make themselves at home throughout the solar system.• She pulled off her hat, she made herself at home.• She had to make herself at home, somehow.• Cynthia, he thought, did not have much trouble making herself at home.
9  make somebody feel at home RELAXEDto make someone feel relaxed by being friendly towards them 使某人感到宾至如归
Examples from the Corpus
make somebody feel at home• Tourists too can expect a right Royal welcome, for the traditional friendliness of the islanders makes everyone feel at home.• The g was less, and that made me feel at home.• He had done his best to make Harvey feel at home.• It is our duty to make them feel at home here.• Or some chum of Matt's put it there to make him feel at home.
10  the home of something 
Examples from the Corpus
the home of something• There was no telephone in his in-laws' house and he had had to call from the home of a neighbor.• Two-thirds of the London sample were employed in the homes of artisans, publicans and victuallers.• Some girls have to do domestic favours in the homes of their male teachers if they can't make the cash payments.• She grew up in the home of a very kind woman.• The island is the home of some fascinating wild life including alligators, which should be treated with respect.• Today it is the home of John and Hazel Cork who renovated it after years of neglect and a serious fire.• Rafah, the home of many of the murdered labourers, was especially tense.• Knowing that her remaining twin was in danger, she rushed to the home of a friend who drove her to hospital.
11  SPORTS TEAM 运动队at home DSif a sports team plays at home, they play at their own sports field 〔球队〕在主场〔比赛〕 OPP away
Examples from the Corpus
home to• Bristol City conceded two late goals as they went down 2-0 at home to Cosenza.• Oxygen and specialized breathing equipment are delivered at home to patients with asthma, emphysema, sleep apnea and other breathing disorders.• Welshpool completed their innings at home to Much Wenlock.• Juniors at home to Halifax in Northern Intermediate League.• But the situation might have changed dramatically Thursday night, with Arizona losing at home to Stanford.• He looked out to lunch - Mr and Mrs Sanity were clearly not at home to callers.• I would stay at home to raise them and live happily ever after.
12. home from home British EnglishBrE, home away from home American EnglishHOMECOMFORTABLE a place that you think is as pleasant and comfortable as your own house 像家一样舒适自在的地方
Examples from the Corpus
home from home• And I love working, it's like home from home.• Here you are surrounded by the natural attractions of the region and have your own fully-equipped home from home.• In other words, the guest is made to feel that the hotel is a home from home.
13. home sweet home COMFORTABLEused to say how nice it is to be in your own home 可爱的家〔表示在家里愉悦的心情〕
Examples from the Corpus
home sweet home• Meanwhile closer to home, it's home sweet home for our footballing sides on parade.• Well, here we are again, home sweet home.
14. dogs’/cats’ home British EnglishBrEDHP a place where animals with no owners are looked after 流浪狗/猫之家，流浪狗/猫收容所
15  find a home for something British EnglishBrEPUT to find a place where something can be kept 找地方安置某物
Examples from the Corpus
find a home for something• Now all that is left to do is find a home for the project.• Enter Arizona Greyhound Rescue, a non-profit group dedicated to finding homes for the retired racers.• Some other species are hard to find homes for, even for free.
16. what’s that when it’s at home? British EnglishBrE spokenEXPLAIN used humorously to ask what a long or unusual word means 说白了是什么意思？〔幽默用法，询问长的或不常用单词的意思〕
17. games 体育比赛 [uncountableU]DG a place in some games or sports which a player must try to reach in order to win a point 终点；目标；本垒
→ home plate, home run
n COLLOCATIONS – Meanings 1 & 2
ADJECTIVES/NOUN + home
a secure/stable home (=a caring family without a lot of changes)
He had grown up in a stable home.
a happy home (=a happy family)
We had a happy home.
a broken home (=a family in which the parents have separated)
Many of the youngsters came from broken homes.
the family home (=where a family lives)
The house was once the family home of the O'Dare family.
the marital home (=where a husband and wife live)
He left the marital home to move in with his lover.
somebody’s childhood/boyhood etc home (=where you lived as a child)
I had not been back to my childhood home for ten years.
a permanent/temporary home
Flood victims were offered temporary homes.
verbs
live at home (=live with your parents)
More people in their twenties are still living at home because housing is so expensive.
leave home (=stop living with your parents at home)
Lisa had left home at age 16.
work from/at home (=do your work at home instead of at an office)
I work at home three days a week.
 THESAURUS
home the house, apartment, or place where you live 家，住所
More and more people are working from home.
越来越多的人在家办公。
It was past midnight by the time I got home.
我到家时已过午夜。
house a building that someone lives in, especially a building intended for one person, couple, or family 房屋，住宅
Shall we meet at your house?
在你家碰头好吗？
Have you seen Dave’s new house – it’s huge!
你见过戴夫的新房子吗——好大啊！
place spoken informal the house, apartment, or room where someone lives 家，住处
We went to Sara’s place after the movie.
看完电影我们去了萨拉家。
nHe’s just bought a fantastic place right by the sea.
residence formal the house or apartment where someone lives, especially a large or official one 〔尤指大型的或官员的〕住宅，官邸
The prime minister’s official residence is 10 Downing Street.
首相官邸在唐宁街10号。
nHis wife transferred her main residence to Spain.
holiday home British EnglishBrE, vacation home American EnglishAmE a house that someone owns by the sea, in the mountains etc, where they go for their holidays 度假别墅，度假屋
They bought a luxury holiday home in Spain.
他们在西班牙买了一幢豪华的度假别墅。
Examples from the Corpus
home• Any readers attempting to furnish a home should find ample material in the September issue.• I never wanted to put my mother in a home.• It took us about ten years to think of Atlanta as home.• In fact, he finds that he is able to get a great deal of work done at home on these days.• To raise the extra money they had to sell the family home.• Buying your first home is a very important step.• She was born in Italy, but she's made Charleston her home.• Her home, she said, was in Hong Kong, but she hadn't been there since she was a child.• I've lived in Madrid for many years, and it feels like home to me now.• They want to build forty luxury homes on a disused railway site.• Between 1945 and 1970 the government built 110,000 new homes for low-paid workers.• The restaurant isn't far from our home, so it's convenient.• People like to feel secure in their own homes.• They grew up in a children's home in Ohio.• It is the home of that most Freudian of plants, the coco-de-mer.• The tax rate depends on when the home was purchased.• They were cared for by friends at their home in nearby Witney.• And owners note a perceptible increase in door-hangers, fliers and other pleas from agents to put their homes up for sale.• Their homes are mobile in name only.• You need to maintain a good balance between your home life and career.
at home• The Jets lost 6-3 at home to New England.• Earlier in the century it was normal for women to have their babies at home.• Sales of electrical goods have increased, both at home and abroad.• I spent the evening at home watching TV.• Shocked by the events at home, the president cut short his trip to Europe.• Darren still lives at home with his parents.• I think she still lives at home with her parents.• The good thing about my job is that I can often work at home.
left home• Then he got a job selling tickets on the railways, and left home.• His fingers were already tingling. 17 David knew it would be difficult to park in Soho and had left home early.• When Lombardy left home about 8 a.m., the detective followed and alerted an officer in a patrol car.• Born to godly parents, Mel left home at fifteen and joined the Navy.• Anguished Bernadette spoke of her ordeal since Mr Onanuga left home 16 days ago.• He seemed to recover considerably after Paheri left home.• She left home early in the morning and often returned late at night.• He probably felt the same, since his sister left home just as he was beginning to get to know her.
made ... home• After the Bombecks made Arizona their home, many local charities benefited from their generosity as well as their presence at fund-raisers.• I would have liked to have heard it again at the second service but Dad made us hurry home.• In spite of his frustrations, though, he fell in love with the country and eventually made his home in Jerusalem.• Slowing to seventy, he made his way home.• One school is building an artifical otter holt to provide them with a ready made home.• She pulled off her hat, she made herself at home.• Local folk tales made it the home of mythical monsters.• I paid the tab, and we made our way home.
back home• He's glad to be back home.• She had graduated from a Lutheran Bible college back home, and at one time she had seriously considered becoming a nun.• He would tell Odysseus how to get back home.• I was hoping there was, cos it's about time I got back home - it's getting pretty late.• They are moving back home to Arizona, back home to Oregon, back home to Tennessee.• The Plot Every day, Johnny took his three goats to pasture and then back home.• He was back home, showered, changed and in bed by eleven forty-five.• A fantasy, but a lovely one, and one that she would miss when she went back home.
home2 ●●● S1 W1 adverbadv  
1  HOMEto or at the place where you live 到家，回家；在家
2  take home £120 per week/$600 a month etc EARNto earn a certain amount of money after tax has been taken off 〔税后〕挣得每周120英镑/每月600美元等
3  hit/drive/hammer etc something home 
4  bring something home to somebody/come home to somebody REALIZEto make you realize how serious, difficult, or dangerous something is 使某人充分意识到某事〔的严重性、难度或危险性〕
5  hit/strike home if a remark, situation, or experience hits home, it makes you realize how serious, difficult, or dangerous something is 〔言语等〕正中要害；〔形势、经历〕使人豁然省悟
Examples from the Corpus
hit/strike home• And to go back to your start-up page hit Home.• By the early 1970s, this realization had already hit home.• She could see that her remark had hit home.• Within hours, the reality of the situation had hit home.• His comment hit home for me, as both therapist and layperson.• It must have struck home in some way.• They spend much of the book showing how various companies have used them to hit home runs or strike out.• The reality of the war didn't hit home until someone from the neighborhood was killed.• All of a sudden the hollowness of our triumph over nature hit home with striking effect.
6. be home and dry British EnglishBrE informalSUCCEED IN DOING something to have succeeded in doing something 大功告成，达到目的
Examples from the Corpus
be home and dry• And when Chris Allen was upended in the area, United probably thought they were home and dry.• He says he is home and dry.• If Components Bureau can beat the champions for a second time, then they will virtually be home and dry.
7  be home free American EnglishAmE informalSUCCEED IN DOING something to have succeeded in doing the most difficult part of something 成功完成最困难的部分
Examples from the Corpus
be home free• He's lost a lot of weight, but he's not home free yet.
→ close to home at close2(19)
n GRAMMAR: Patterns with home
You go home, come home, or get home:
We all went home.
I wish he’d come home.
What time did you get home?
✗Don’t say: We all went to home. | I wish he’d come to home. | What time did you get to home?
You go back home or come back home:
Why don’t you go back home and rest?
✗Don’t say: back to home
Examples from the Corpus
home• He cleans the offices after all the workers have gone home.• Dreamer placed Tallis on the snow, facing south, facing home.• Extra ferries are needed to bring them back home.• The day of the trial, I stayed home.• Come straight home after the theatre, won't you?• She herself went home for the night.• And then he blagged a twin-engined Squirrel helicopter to take him home from a rugby match.• You can take the laptop home with you if you like.
stayed home• The day of the trial, I stayed home.• Her remark that she could always have stayed home and made cookies has discomfited Republicans, not least Barbara Bush.• Many sympathisers stayed home at the last election, no longer fearing that Jose• The next day, she stayed home from work, something she rarely did, pleading illness.• U2's Achtung Baby album won five trophies but they stayed home - preferring to celebrate in their favourite Dublin pub instead.• One of the last nights, Amelia begged off going to a party and stayed home, so Toot stayed home too.• I stayed home so we'd have time this evening.
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home3 ●●● W3 adjectiveadj [only before noun]  
1  HOMErelating to or belonging to your home or family 家的，家庭的
2  HOMEdone at home or intended for use in a home 在家做的；家用的
3  DSplayed or playing at a team’s own sports field, rather than an opponent’s field 在主场进行的
4  COUNTRY/NATIONrelating to a particular country, as opposed to foreign countries 本国的，国内的 SYN domestic
Examples from the Corpus
home• home appliances• The company has decided to expand in the home computer market.• Home furnishings are on the second floor next to the toy department.• a home game
home address/number• She hesitated by the telephone, then dialled Miguel's home number.• The Department of Correction, in a blunder Ryan shakes her head over still, inadvertently gave Carter her home address.• I made a note of Mahoney's home address and returned the paper to the waste basket.• He gave Wynne his home number and told him to call if he could help.• A graduation program from 1930 lists the now world-famed cook as Julia McWilliams, her home address as Pasadena.• It is called a synonym, and will overflow from its natural home address because that is already full.• Very large numbers of synonyms for even a few home addresses can make it impractical, however.• Like many, Martin had lied about his home address in order to get into a school in a better neighborhood.
home cooking• Dear Skid: Ursula is a big believer in making the man come to the kitchen if he wants home cooking.• The adjacent Gelli Farm Restaurant offers a high cuisine with local produce and home cooking.• Fine home cooking and all the other special comforts you would expect in this beautifully restored home.• Like fried chicken, potpie symbolizes home cooking and comfort food, she said.• Good home cooking is served and fresh local and garden produce are used.• Breakfast is continental style and dinners are tasty home cooking with a choice of menu.• Excellent home cooking with choice of menu.
home team/game/crowd/club etc• This is the third consecutive blackout for the Raiders and the eighth in their last 12 home games.• This is where we can make up some ground and then come back and start winning the home games again.• A novelty for the home crowd at reserve matches in 1924-25 was music from gramophone records broadcast through a loudspeaker.• Every home game has been sold out to season ticket-holders since 1960.• Maybe I can make it to my first home game in 15 years!• The opening home game is against Rome on April 16.• I think in that situation the home crowd's support was of great value to the team.• David takes him to one of the home games, then briefs Jody by phone before the guy calls for a date.
home4 ●○○ verb  
1 home in on something phrasal verbphr v 
a) TOWARDSto aim exactly at an object or place and move directly to it 对准并靠近〔某事物或地方〕
 The bat can home in on insects using a kind of ‘radar’.
蝙蝠能凭借某种“雷达”准确找到并飞向昆虫。
b) ATTENTIONto direct your efforts or attention towards a particular fault or problem 将注意力集中于〔某一缺陷或问题〕
 He homed in on the one weak link in the argument.
他瞄准论据中的一个薄弱环节。
Examples from the Corpus
home in on • It can home in on a car from almost half a mile away.• Eyes as dark as night homed in on her own.• Some weapons home in on infra-red sources, some on radar, others just go where they are told.• Using both taste and smell, sharks can home in on ounces of blood diffused in the sea.• They live mainly on berries and fruit, so they tend to home in on people's gardens.• Sue Morris of W H Smith homed in on the primary source of the information - the consumer.• As her work homed in on the truth of her circumstances, Margarett became more vulnerable.• It sounds, once again, as though evolution deals in distant targets, homing in on things like scorpions.
Examples from the Corpus
home• Decoys that can confuse the homing sensor in the interceptor are the Achilles' heel of this system.
From Longman Business Dictionary
homehome1 /həʊmhoʊm/ adjectiveadj [only before a noun]
connected with or happening in the country where goods are produced, rather than foreign countriesSYN DOMESTIC
The company faces very little competition in the home market.
Home consumption of whisky has continued to decline.
homehome2 adverbadv
take/bring home £300 a week/$1200 a month etc to earn a particular amount of money after tax has been taken away
These workers take home just £100 a week.
Origin home1
Old English ham “village, home”
home1 noun
→10-17

→n COLLOCATIONS1 →THESAURUS1home2 adverbadv →n GRAMMAR1home3 adjectiveadjhome4 verb
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