homesickness

IPA/ˈhəʊmsɪknəs/
KK[hˈomsˌɪknəs]IPA/ˈhəʊmsɪknəs/

homesickness — 名詞

1. a sad, lonely emotion that someone gets when they are far from where they live a

1.名詞B1
釋義

思鄉；想家

因離家在外而想念家人與家鄉的難過心情

a sad, lonely emotion that someone gets when they are far from where they live and long to be back with their family and familiar things

例句

Ife cried with homesickness on her first night at boarding school.

Ife 在寄宿學校的第一晚因為想家而哭了。

abstract noun naming an emotion as subject of a feeling

After three months in Berlin, Mauricio felt a deep homesickness for his mother's cooking.

在柏林待了三個月後，Mauricio 深深思念起媽媽煮的菜。

collocation: homesickness for [something from home]

常見搭配
  • feel homesickness
  • deep homesickness
  • homesickness for
  • ease homesickness
  • fight off homesickness
同義詞
  • nostalgia

    longing for the past rather than specifically for home

  • longing

    broad word for any strong wish; homesickness is longing aimed at home

用法筆記

Uncountable: say 'a feeling of homesickness' or 'deep homesickness', never 'a homesickness' or 'homesicknesses'.

常見錯誤

I had a homesickness.
I felt homesick.' / 'I had a wave of homesickness.
the noun is uncountable, so it takes no plural and usually no 'a' on its own.

同根字

常見搭配

名詞搭配

  • wave of homesickness
  • pang of homesickness
  • feeling of homesickness

常用片語

  • overcome homesickness
  • ease the homesickness
  • suffer from homesickness

介系詞搭配

  • homesickness for