home ground

英 [ˌhəʊm ˈɡraʊnd]

美 [ˌhoʊm ˈɡraʊnd]

n.  主场场地; 主队运动场; 自己的家; 熟悉的工作地方; 自己的地盘

牛津词典

noun

• 主场场地；主队运动场
  a sports ground that a team regularly plays on in their own area or town
• 自己的家；熟悉的工作地方；自己的地盘
  a place where sb lives or works and where they feel confident, rather than a place that is not familiar to them
  1. I'd rather meet him here on my own home ground.
     我宁愿在我自己的地盘上见他。

柯林斯词典

• N-VAR （体育比赛的）主场场地
  A sports team'shome groundis their own playing field, as opposed to that of other teams.
  1. They are banned from playing on their home ground because of crowd trouble...
     他们因观众闹事而被禁止在主场比赛。
  2. Austria, playing on home ground in Vienna, took a 3-0 lead over Italy.
     奥地利队在维也纳自家赛场以3比0领先意大利队。

in AM, use 美国英语用 home field


• PHRASE 在自己的家（或工作地）附近;在自己的地盘上
  If you say that someone isontheirhome ground, you mean that they are in or near where they work or live, and feel confident and secure because of this.
  1. Although he was on home ground, his campaign had been rocked by adultery allegations.
     虽然是在自己家乡，他的竞选活动还是因私通指控受到了冲击。

英英释义

noun

• the type of environment in which an organism or group normally lives or occurs
  1. a marine habitat
  2. he felt safe on his home grounds
  Synonym:habitat

双语例句

• There has also been proactive coordination by the New Zealand agencies responsible for implementing the FTA, both at home and on the ground here in China.
  新西兰在新、在华负责实施自贸协定的政府机构的积极协调，也是功不可没的。
• The interview was fairly difficult until they asked me about car maintenance, where I was on my home ground and could impress them with the extent of my knowledge.
  面试开始时进行得相当当艰难，直到他们问我所熟悉的汽车维修时，我广博的知识才给他们有了好印象。
• Lampard dreads driving to his home ground on match days.
  兰帕德都不敢在比赛日自己开车去主场。
• Liberals may have loathed the Chicago school, but Hayek felt on home ground in an intellectual atmosphere so like the Vienna of his youth.
  自由主义者本来也可能厌恶芝加哥学派的，但哈耶克觉得这种学术氛围非常象他年轻时代的维也纳。
• He became unpopular even on his home ground.
  即使在自己的地盘，他也不再受人欢迎了。
• My home may be drop up ground through the3rd tower.
  我的夹克从三楼掉到地上了。
• Bring home some ground steaks if you think of it.
  如果你要的话，还会带点牛肉末回来。
• Quite often we have to play host to them though it's their home ground.
  经常是在他们地盘还得我们招待他们。
• And how ardently they grew to love their home under the ground; especially Wendy.
  他们渐渐地都热烈地爱上了这个地下的家，特别是温迪。
• An rep keen to represent your company will be happy to attend an interview and assess the new principal's potential on their home ground.
  一个热切想代理你的公司的销售代理商会很乐意参加一个正式的面谈，并藉此在新客户的地盘上评估新客户的潜力。