1.本国〔对殖民地说〕,母国;父母之邦;发祥地
1.the country where you were born or that your family originally came from
1.It has been the canvas on which the complicated relationship between the mother country and its most rambunctious offspring took form.
这已经是画布上的母亲之间的国家和最喧闹的后代了复杂的关系形式。
2.In the image of the Byzantium Empire, Yeats expressed his wish for his mother country Ireland and disclosed his aristocratic ideal.
借助拜占庭这面镜像，叶芝实现了对诗人本身和祖国爱尔兰进行言说的最终目的。
3.And she has a deep love of her mother country even though she migrated to United States, became a citizen.
尽管她已经移民成为美国公民，她对自己的祖国依然有着深沉的爱；
4.But these paragons are now returning en masse to the mother country (just as America makes life more difficult for immigrants).
但这些优秀人才都开始大批回国（由于美国移民政策加紧，移民生活更加不易）。
5.China is the mother country of the above mentioned folk tales which was jot down in the book "enlighten biography" in West Jin.
中国是《螺中美妇》型民间故事的发源地，该故事最早记载于西晋的《发蒙记》。
6.Though far away from their mother country, their celebrations are just as authentically Chinese.
虽然远离祖国，他们的庆祝活动也同样原汁原味中国味。
7.Both the mother country and its colonies placed property restrictions on voting, and rested this practice on two assumptions.
母国和殖民地都对投票设立了财产条件，并基于两种观念。
8.As the quarrel with the mother country grew acute, he moderately but firmly voiced his resistance to the restrictions.
随着对祖国的抱怨的不断升级，他温文尔雅的选择了抵制这些限制，但是又不失坚定。
9.This was done through loans raised in Britain, so this policy increased the economic dependence on the "mother country" .
这一政策是通过在英国本土募集贷款来实现的，这就加深了新西兰对其“母国”在经济上的依赖。
10.Protected by the fleet, its multiplying colonies supplied the mother country with raw materials and bought her manufactured goods.
在舰艇的保护之下，大量的殖民地向母国英国提供原材料，然后购买她的工业制成品。