| 释义 |
ˈhome-town orig. U.S.
[home n.1 15 a.]
The town in which one's home is, or was originally; one's native town. Also attrib.
1912Top-Notch Mag. (U.S.) 1 Aug. 64/2 He was killed in a pool-room row in my home town up the State. 1919H. L. Wilson Ma Pettengill xi. 307 Having got the thanks of the French nation and his home-town paper. 1935R. Frost Let. 21 Aug. (1964) 262 The sordidness..of home-town society all over Russia. 1938Times Lit. Suppl. 6 Aug. 514/4 ‘Home-town’ mixture, Scandinavian, Italian,..all, whatever the race, nationality, class or occupation, end..by being good fellows. 1948Oakhillian Summer 12 The other dignitaries returned to their various hometowns. 1953[see fake n.2 3]. 1971Nat. Geogr. Mag. Oct. 551/2 They [sc. boats] hold about a dozen people each and introduce the visitor to some of the more interesting of the hometown folk. |