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

• 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。
• The International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade honours the millions of Africans violently removed from their homelands and cast into slavery.
  奴隶制和跨大西洋奴隶贸易受害者国际纪念日是纪念那些数百万给强行赶出家园，沦为奴隶的非洲人。
• 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。
• Indeed, these might even be less riskythan their homelands 'governments.
  真的，这些公司的风险可能比他们所在国的政府都少。
• But the potential is probably bigger in the developing world, and in countries in which migrants remit money to their families in relatively poor homelands.
  但是，在发展中国家，还有在那些移民工人需要将钱汇回相对贫穷的老家的国家，手机银行发展的潜力更大。
• 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 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；
• 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。
• 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。
• This results from its absorption of the ethnic minority homelands that make up 60 per cent of its land mass and are the origin of all the important international rivers flowing out of Chinese territory.
  这是源于中国对少数民族居住地的吸纳&这些少数民族居住地区占到了中国陆地总面积的60%，是从中国流出的所有重要国际河流的发源地。