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homesick

/hohm-sik/US // ˈhoʊmˌsɪk //UK // (ˈhəʊmˌsɪk) //

想家,想家了,想家的人,思乡

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : sad or depressed from a longing for home or family while away from them for a long time.

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Examples

  • In May 1965, Brian Robson was miserably homesick after working nearly a year in Melbourne, Australia, but he couldn’t afford a plane ticket home to Wales.

  • There’s the distance he feels from his lonely, homesick-for-the-old-world mother.

  • When Shawn was on the Olympic circuit, she says coffee was an easy cure for her homesick blues.

  • The soldiers smiled back at the friendly locals—they all felt homesick and could not wait to see their families.

  • I also found that Hofbräu-Festzelt is the tent of choice for homesick English-speakers.

  • If she is at all uncomfortable or homesick, Lamb promises to take her to the nearest airport and send her back to her mom.

  • She was placed in a dorm with other first-year students, and for her entire first week of school she was very homesick.

  • Who it helps: Homesick troops, many of them on their second, third, or even fourth deployment.

  • He never returned, but died in England on June 3, 1780, an unhappy and a homesick exile from the country which he loved.

  • Would you ever dream that four children could be homesick in such a beautiful house as Mr. Cordyce's?

  • The letters that found their way across the sea were not homesick in these days, and Ikey's mother ceased to worry about him.

  • My heart reaches out in homesick yearning for the notes of our dear Northern songsters.

  • Kit could only think of a lost, homesick dog begging for the scent of the trail to his own kennel.