homeland
homeland — 名詞
1. the country you consider your home because you grew up there and your family com
故鄉；祖國
出生且有歸屬感的國家
the country you consider your home because you grew up there and your family comes from there
Vivek visits his homeland every summer to see his extended family.
Vivek 每年夏天都會回故鄉探望家人。
possessive + homeland + travel verb
After years of working abroad, Élise finally returned to her homeland.
在國外工作多年後，Élise 終於回到了故鄉。
return to + somebody's homeland
Bao grew up in Australia but felt deeply connected to his parents' homeland in Vietnam.
Bao 在澳洲長大，但對父母的家鄉越南有深厚的感情連結。
Haruto felt a deep emotional tie to his homeland, though he left as a child.
Haruto 對自己的故鄉有深厚的情感連結，儘管他小時候就離開了。
Many soldiers fought bravely to defend their homeland from foreign invasion.
許多士兵英勇作戰，保衛祖國免受外敵入侵。
- motherland
more poetic and emotionally charged; often used for the country of one's ancestors even if one was born elsewhere
- fatherland
similar to motherland but more common in European patriotic contexts; less used in American English
- native land
neutral and factual, lacks the emotional depth of homeland
- home country
practical everyday term used when travelling or living abroad
- foreign country
a country that is not one's own
文法句型
the/somebody's + homeland
用法筆記
Common in discussions of migration, exile, and national pride. The word carries a warmer, more personal tone than simply 'country' and usually implies a sense of belonging, not just a birthplace fact.
常見錯誤
2. under the South African apartheid system (1948–1994), one of the segregated area
黑人家園
南非種族隔離下劃給黑人的區域
under the South African apartheid system (1948–1994), one of the segregated areas where black people were forced to live, each supposedly having limited self-government
Under apartheid, millions of black South Africans were forced to live in designated homelands.
在種族隔離制度下，數百萬南非黑人被迫遷入指定的黑人家園。
forced to live in + homelands (passive construction)
The Transkei homeland received only the appearance of self‑rule from the apartheid government in 1976.
種族隔離政府於 1976 年只給予特蘭斯凱（Transkei）黑人家園形式上的自治權。
appearance of self‑rule — not real independence
A 1980 UN report noted Transkei families had no hospitals, paved roads, or secondary schools.
一份 1980 年的聯合國報告指出，特蘭斯凱黑人家園的家庭沒有醫院、鋪面道路或中學。
In the 1960s, the Mokoena family was forced to leave Johannesburg for the KwaZulu homeland.
1960 年代，Mokoena 一家被迫離開約翰尼斯堡，前往夸祖魯（KwaZulu）黑人家園。
The homeland system stripped black South Africans of citizenship and sent them to poor areas.
黑人家園制度剝奪了南非黑人的公民身份，並將他們送往貧困地區。
文法句型
the + homelands
homeland + noun (system / policy)
用法筆記
This sense is strictly historical and refers only to the apartheid-era Bantustan policy in South Africa (1948–1994). Do not use it generically for indigenous territories or ethnic regions in other countries. These homelands were created by the white minority government along ethnic lines to deny black South Africans citizenship and political rights.