mother country
祖国,母国,母亲国,祖国大陆
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- : the country of one's birth or ancestry.
- : the country of origin of settlers or colonists in a place.
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Once the mother country itself became “haughty and proud,” bent on “enslaving us all,” Americans knew all too well what they needed to do.
In that country at that moment, the Catholics have practically disappeared.
Elsewhere, courts throughout the country have placed limits on speech this year.
Taraji manages to bring an equal measure of truth to the mother in her character.
Three on-the-record stories from a family: a mother and her daughters who came from Phoenix.
“This is a federal mandate that is causing some real problems for schools across the country,” Kline told a CBS affiliate in July.
The country is well inhabited, for it contains fifty-one cities, near a hundred walled towns, and a great number of villages.
There was no doubt thought of his own loss in this question: yet there was, one may hope, a germ of solicitude for the mother too.
In the drawing-room things went on much as they always do in country drawing-rooms in the hot weather.
"The Smoker," and "Mother and Daughter," a triptych, are two of her principal pictures.
Nothing remarkable occurred in our march through this country.