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单词 at home
释义 at home
I. \ətˈhōm, Brit sometimes əˈtōm\ noun
: a reception given at one's home
 < if you are serving tea and chocolate and a variety of food … call it an at home — Emily Post >
II. \ətˈhōm sometimes chiefly Brit & NewEng əˈtōm\ phrasal
1.
 a. : in one's own house or home
  < generally to be found at home in the morning >
 b. : ready to receive callers
  < the newly wed couple will be at home after June 15 >
2.
 a. : in the country of origin : on the domestic front
  < totalitarianism is despotic at home and expansionist abroad — George Fischer >
 b. : in the mother country
  < people … at home and throughout the Commonwealth — Wendell Willkie >
3.
 a. : in a familiar or congenial relationship : relaxed and comfortable : at ease
  < a pleasant manner that soon made me feel at home >
  < he is … at home among the diplomatic and fashionable circles — Peggy Durdin >
 b. : in harmony with the surroundings : acclimated to the environment
  < in the universities where basic research is most at home — M.H.Trytten >
  < at home in surf, the young abound in rock pools — J.L.B.Smith >
4. : on familiar ground : competent, knowledgeable
 < at home in Italian opera — George Jellinek >
 < the sciences of biology and psychology in which the author is masterfully at home >
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