homelands

英 [ˈhəʊmlændz]

美 [ˈhoʊmˌlændz]

n.  祖国; 家乡; (南非共和国过去在种族隔离制度下设立的、有一定自治权的)黑人定居地
homeland的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 祖国
  Yourhomelandis your native country.
  1. Many are planning to return to their homeland.
     很多人正计划回到自己的祖国去。
• “黑人家园”（指过去南非种族隔离制度下的黑人有一定自治权的地区）
  Thehomelandswere regions within South Africa in which black South Africans had a limited form of self-government.

双语例句

• In fact, our constitutional laws were drawn up at a time when then-migrants were given a choice of either going back to their homelands or to accept this nation and help develop it.
  事实上，我们的宪制性法律的制定时在当时的移民给予了选择，要么回到自己的家园或接受这个国家，并帮助它发展的时间。
• Yemen is one of the main homelands of the South Semitic family of languages, which includes the non-Arabic language of the ancient Sabaean Kingdom.
  也门是闪米特家庭语言（包括古萨巴王国的非阿拉伯语）的主要故乡之一。
• The practice of regional autonomy not only ensures the rights of the ethnic minorities to exercise autonomy as masters of their homelands, but also upholds the unification of the state.
  实行民族区域自治，既保障了少数民族当家作主的自治权利，又维护了国家的统一；
• For another example, spending an annual holiday travelling abroad is an especially satisfying experience for those who do not have much of an opportunity to be away from their homelands.
  再比如，对于那些没有太多机会离开家的人来说，每年一次的节日出国旅游是一种特别令人满意的体验。
• The government and the whole society, after the earthquake, have invested a large sum of money to help people of the disaster area resume normal production and living and rebuild new better homelands.
  灾害过后，国家、社会投入巨额资金帮助灾区人民恢复正常的生产生活，重建新的美好家园。
• Under the waves of industrialization and urbanization, both the protagonists choose to leave their rural homelands for big cities to earn their livings there.
  在工业化与城市化的冲击下，刘高兴和嘉莉都选择离开家乡农村到大都市谋生。
• In many parts of the world, the demand for consular protection is surging, and homelands such as China are meeting it.
  在全世界许多地区，寻求领事保护的需要日益高涨，中国等母国正在满足这种需要。
• They were forced to put forward an alternative of separate development for all races in this so – called homelands, with a promise of eventual independence for the Africans in these areas.
  他们不得不变换一下花样，提出一个所谓的家园本土上分别发展各个民族，并且许愿在这些地区，非洲人最终会取得独立。
• I lived a humble life, yet I worked hard to gain honor and glory in the battlefields as well as in my homelands.
  我出身卑微，但我在战场上奋勇杀敌以争得荣誉，在家乡努力工作以获取赞扬。
• She says more needs to be done to help those seeking to flee troubled homelands.
  她说，要帮助那些逃离充满不安的家园的人，还有许多事情要做。