mother tongue
英 [ˌmʌðə ˈtʌŋ]
美 [ˌmʌðər ˈtʌŋ]
n. 母语; 本国语
牛津词典
noun
- 母语；本国语
the language that you first learn to speak when you are a child
柯林斯词典
- 母语;本国语;本族语
Yourmother tongueis the language that you learn from your parents when you are a baby.
英英释义
noun
- one's native language
双语例句
- My mother tongue is chinese.
我的母语是中文。 - Today students of English, even if English is their mother tongue cannot understand his jokes.
今天学习英语的学生，甚至是以英语为母语的人们，仍然听不懂的玩笑。 - Mother tongue and the first foreign language both transfer the vowel pronunciation of the second foreign language.
母语和第一外语对第二外语的元音发音都存在着迁移作用。 - I think they all love you, I like to listen to your mother tongue with their frenzied shouting your name.
我想他们都很爱你，我很喜欢听他们用你的母语疯狂喊你的名字。 - It's my mother tongue.
这是我的母语。 - England is not my mother country, but English is my mother tongue.
英国不是我的祖国，但英语却是我的母语。 - His mother tongue is Portuguese.
他的母语是葡萄牙语。 - That is, English is the mother tongue used in these countries.
也就是说，英语是这些国家使用的母语。 - He can't speak his mother tongue, much less english.
他连自己的母语都说不会，更别提英语了。 - By the end of the week, I couldn't even remember one word of my Mother Tongue.
在这个星期快结束之时，我甚至记不起我母语中的任何一个词藻。