mother tongue

英 [ˌmʌðə ˈtʌŋ]

美 [ˌmʌðər ˈtʌŋ]

n.  母语; 本国语

法律

牛津词典

noun

• 母语；本国语
  the language that you first learn to speak when you are a child

柯林斯词典

• 母语;本国语;本族语
  Yourmother tongueis the language that you learn from your parents when you are a baby.

英英释义

noun

• one's native language
  Synonym:maternal languagefirst language

双语例句

• He wrote the article in his mother tongue.
  他用母语写的文章。
• My mother tongue is chinese.
  我的母语是中文。
• It's a must for all those whose mother tongue is not English.
  对于那些母语不是英语的外国学生来说，托福考试是必须要通过的。
• I think they all love you, I like to listen to your mother tongue with their frenzied shouting your name.
  我想他们都很爱你，我很喜欢听他们用你的母语疯狂喊你的名字。
• I want to talk with people when they are using their mother tongue.
  我想要和别人交谈，用她们的民族标准语。
• England is not my mother country, but English is my mother tongue.
  英国不是我的祖国，但英语却是我的母语。
• I was brought in Bolin and french is my mother tongue.
  你猜对了！我生长在法语是我的母语。
• The scholar is well versed in Latin, not to speak of English which is his mother tongue.
  那位学者精通拉丁语，至于他的本族语英语就更不用说了。
• Instead we learned or acquired our mother tongue by communicating with the people around us.
  我们的母语是通过和我们周围人们的交流而学习或获得的。
• Mother tongue and the first foreign language both transfer the vowel pronunciation of the second foreign language.
  母语和第一外语对第二外语的元音发音都存在着迁移作用。