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
- We've all heard of Chinese people who can't speak a single dialect of their mother tongue.
我们都听到了中国人民谁不能讲母语了单一的方言。 - 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。 - Including your mother tongue and your second foreign language tool.
第二是语言技能，包括你的母语和作为工具的第二外语。 - Besides Chinese, my mother tongue, I can also speak EnglishFrench.
除了我的母语汉语外，我能讲英语和法语。 - I want to talk with people when they are using their mother tongue.
我想要和别人交谈，用她们的民族标准语。 - No, we'd better save us from losing our mother tongue.
不，我们最好别把母语都忘了。 - 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。 - 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。 - First, because Mandarin Chinese is not my mother tongue, I took a two-month crash course.
首先，因为普通话不是我的母语，我先上了两个月的语言课。 - A pep talk I therefore encourage you to take both English and your mother tongue language very seriously.
（教练对运动员的）鼓励性讲话，精神讲话因此，我鼓励你认真对待英语和母语；