flat/apartment, etc. ffiJFM: He works away from home
during the week. #I#D
0 I don’t want
to be away from home for too long. A M ^ M H lU A
2 {BrE)
if a sports team plays away from home, it plays in the town, etc. that its
opponent comes from ( It If PA ) a .home from 'home {BrE) [NAmE
a
.home away from home) a place where you feel relaxed and comfortable as if
you were in your own home iMM^ ##Fii g 4 WIA .home is where the 'heart is (saying) a home is where the people you love are MJ1JjL''2.&frM
home sweet
'home (often
ironic) used to say how pleasant
your home is (especially when you really mean that it is not pleasant at all)
Wf M (ft M; M set up home {BrE) {used especially about a couple) to start
living in a new place ( AjU A#3 )
MM, $tM:
They got married and set up home together in huii. im^mr, when
he's, it’s, etc. at home (BrE, humorous) used to emphasize a question
about sb/sth ( H ) I'J
/Si, %%■.
Who’s she when she’s at home? (= I don’t know her) II] IS Ik it ? — more at charity, close2 adj., eat, Englishman, spiritual
■
adj. [only before noun]
►
WHERE YOU LIVE M 1 connected with the place where you live MM&J:
home life (= with your family) MME:{&
O a person’s home address/town MMUkilt; M % 0 We offer customers a free home
delivery service.
►
MADE/USED AT HOME MEHk IE 2 made or used at home
MEM: home movies MM 0 home cooking M1$f$M 0 a home computer ME
►
OWN COUNTRY A 3 (especially BrE) connected with
your own country rather than foreign countries
ip. H (ft; H |*| (ft H771 domestic : products for the home
market >J
g] |/l A A A (ft A op 0 home
news/affairs g| AlfrH / Plin FOREIGN, OVERSEAS
►
IN SPORT W If is --I 4 connected with a team’s own sports ground
(ft: a home match/win tfcH / ]fk M O the home team ±PA 0 Rangers
were playing in front of their home crowd.
f|0
—compare away(6)
■
adv. t
►
WHERE YOU LIVE 1 to or at the place where
you
live 3\M\ HM\ fEM-. Come on, it’s time to
go home. 1& fi, ^@11, 0 What
time did you get home last night? ifcflfefkh / H
MMMtiti ? 0 The trip has been exhausting and I’ll be glad to be home.
O After a month, they went back home to America, —*AJ3 ZE, '[Mill!® 7HSlo 0 It was a lovely day so I walked home. UP J9r
IM ® ^ T o 0 Anna will
drive me home after work.
0 Hopefully the doctors will
allow her home tomorrow. BJ Ma
0 (NAmE)
I like to stay home in the evenings.
►
INTO CORRECT POSITION IE El fv If 2 into the correct
position fij IE El (ft fv £ : She leaned on the
door and pushed the bolt home. M # f£ H ±, ± 7 d H 0 o He
drove the ball home (= scored a goal) from 15 metres,
# M. 15 o The torpedo struck
home
on the hull of the ship. J§.1BiEA AfSlK
ITiTWl be home and 'dry (BrE) (NAmE be home 'free) to have done sth
successfully, especially when it was difficult I
could see the finish line
and thought I was home and dry. illicit-7J$#j7o bring home the 'bacon (informal) to be
successful at sth; to earn money for your family to live on #3\^M% P bring sth
'home to sb
to make sb realize how important, difficult
or serious
sth is (mm,
rmnm > =
The television pictures brought home to us the full horror of the
attack. f&m&mi&mmfriltT
come ’home to sb to become completely clear to sb, often in a way that
is painful ( finite )
Bfl S
: It suddenly came home to him that he was never going to see Julie again,
# ^ BJj £ ffe # tfe M A I'J A ffi T o sth comes home to roost (also the chickens come home to
’roost) used
to say that if sb says or does sth bad or wrong, it will affect them badly in
the
| 979 home
improvement
future jfrjSZl!] g
Blf± hit/strike
'home if a
remark, etc. hits/strikes home, it has a strong
effect on sb, in a way that makes them realize what the true facts of a
situation are ( Wilt# ) IE AH IF,
±: Her face went pale as his
words hit home. ftfe(fti$SJ AH IF, —more
at cow n., drive v.,
LIGHT n., PRESS V., RAM V., ROMP V., WRITE
■ verb IJIlilM .home 'in on sth 1 to aim at sth and move
straight towards it H |n], # ift, H 1ft ( @ ^ ) ; The missile homed in on
the target. ##JE[n] 2 to
direct your thoughts or attention towards sth (
Jg, £7 &!£ A ) H A7: I began to feel I was really homing in on
the answer. SMJcI'J^^To
.home
'base noun [sing., u] 1 = home
plate 2 the place where sb/sth
usually lives, works or operates from SEftfe; A AH
home-body /'haumbDdi;
NAmE 'houmbaidi/ noun {pi. -ies) {informal, especially NAmE) a person who enjoys spending
time at home MJfc&fEM MW A; A
home-boy /'haumboi;
NAmE 'houm-/ noun {NAmE, informal) a male friend from the
same town as you; a member of your gang
(= a group of young people who go around together) ( ikW,
.home
'brew noun [u] 1 beer that sb makes at home M 2 something that sb makes at
home rather than buying it ^ dffrJfEMAffi: The security software he uses
is home brew, & ft S g ► ,home-
' brew (also , home-' brewed) adj. home-buy-er /'haumbai0(r); NAmE 'houm-/ noun a person who buys a house, flat/apartment,
etc.
.home
'cinema (BrE) {NAmE .home ‘theater) noun [U] television and video equipment
designed to give a similar experience to being in a cinema/movie theater, with
high-quality pictures and sound and a large screen
homecom ing /'haumkAmiri; NAmE 'houm-/ noun 1 [C, U] the act of returning to your home
after being away for a long time ( -fc&shitlfciE/SM ) ®M, &M,
® HI 2 [C] {NAmE) a social event that takes place every year
at a high school, college or
university for people who used to be students there (
the .Home 'Counties noun [pi.] the counties around
.home
eco'nomics noun [U] cooking and other
skills needed at home, taught as a subject in school MMc¥ .home ‘front noun [sing.] the people who do not go to fight
in a war but who stay in a country to work (
Al^A K1 on the 'home front happening at home, or in
your own country (i&Affl )
home-girl /'haumg3:l;
NAmE 'houmg3:rl/ noun {NAmE, informal) a female friend from the
same town as you; a member of your gang
(= a group of young people who go around together) &|WJ ^; (ft) St#
.home
'ground noun [sing.,
U] 1 {BrE) a sports ground that a team regularly
plays on in their own area or town 2
a place where sb lives or
works and where they feel confident, rather
than a place that is not familiar to them g cLffiM; i&A; g B Ed rather meet him here on
my own
home ground. g B^Jtt AJJiLftko
.home-'grown
adj. 1 (of plants, fruit and
vegetables fl grown in a person’s garden g MMf^E A (ft: home-grown
tomatoes g Mffl (ft ffi £1# 2 made, trained or educated in your own
country, town, etc. A m ( flJcAilil ) mm.) ( $[W(ft ) ; The team
has a wealth of home-grown
talent. iA ^ g B ip A ^jAAo
.home
'help noun {BrE) a person whose job is to help old or sick
people with cooking, cleaning, etc. ( ^HA
.home
improvement noun [C, U] changes that are
made to a house, that increase its value (
Mf£^\%: They’ve spent a lot of money