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
- Instead we learned or acquired our mother tongue by communicating with the people around us.
我们的母语是通过和我们周围人们的交流而学习或获得的。 - 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。 - His mother tongue is Portuguese.
他的母语是葡萄牙语。 - The target language should be your mother tongue and it's necessary for you to know basic Chinese.
该目标语种必须是你的母语，并且懂基本的中文。 - 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。 - 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。 - It's my mother tongue.
这是我的母语。 - No, we'd better save us from losing our mother tongue.
不，我们最好别把母语都忘了。 - 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。 - His mother tongue was Korean but spoke fluent English.
他的母语是朝鲜语，但英语流利。