fatherland


n. 祖国

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英文词源

fatherland (n.)
"one's native country," 1620s, from father (n.) + land (n.). In modern use often a loan-translation of German Vaterland, itself a loan-translation of Latin patria (terra), literally "father's land." Similar formation in Dutch vaderland, Danish fædreland, Swedish fädernesland. Late Old English/Middle English fæderland (c. 1100) meant "parental land, inheritance."

实用例句

1. They were willing to serve the fatherland in its hour of need.
他们愿意在祖国需要的时候为她效力。
来自柯林斯例句
2. They were doing everything they could to help the fatherland.
他们尽其所能资助他们的祖国.
来自《简明英汉词典》
3. By 1945 that cancer had metastasized all through the Fatherland.
到了一九四五年,即癌症已经扩散到了祖国各地.
来自辞典例句
4. In the past we had no fatherland, nor could we have had one.
过去我们没有祖国, 也不可能有个祖国.
来自演讲部分
5. Do you want our socialist fatherland to be beaten and to lose its independence?
你们愿意看到我们的社会主义祖国被打败并失去它的独立 吗 ?
来自演讲部分

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