immigrate

/ˈɪmɪɡreɪt/ (bre, ipa) · /ˈɪmɪɡreɪt/ (ame, ipa) · /ˈi-mə-ˌgrāt/ (ame, mw)

immigrate — 動詞

  • immigratepresent simple I / you / we / they
  • immigrateshe / she / it
  • immigratedpast simple
  • immigrating-ing form

1. to arrive in a foreign country and make it your permanent home, leaving your cou

1.動詞不及物B1
釋義

移民

到外國永久居住

to arrive in a foreign country and make it your permanent home, leaving your country of origin behind

例句

Amara's grandparents immigrated to Brazil from Lebanon in the 1950s.

Amara 的祖父母在 1950 年代從黎巴嫩移民到巴西。

immigrate + to [country] + from [country]

Since the new trade agreement, more engineers have immigrated to Canada each year.

自從新的貿易協定生效後，每年有更多工程師移民到加拿大。

present perfect: have immigrated to [country]

同義詞
  • migrate

    broader term — can refer to temporary or seasonal movement, not necessarily permanent country change

  • relocate

    formal; can mean moving within the same country or abroad, and does not carry the legal/permanent implication

  • settle

    focuses on establishing a home rather than the act of crossing a border

反義詞
  • emigrate

    the same process seen from the opposite perspective — leaving your own country rather than arriving in a new one

文法句型

immigrate + to [country]

immigrate + from [country]

用法筆記

This verb is always intransitive — it never takes a direct object. You immigrate TO a destination country and FROM a country of origin. The subject is the person or group who moves.

常見錯誤

❗ 'He immigrated Canada last year.' ✅ 'He immigrated to Canada last year.' — immigrate is intransitive and needs the preposition 'to' before the destination.

❗ 'They immigrated from their home country.' ✅ 'They emigrated from their home country.' — use 'emigrate' when focusing on leaving the origin country; use 'immigrate' when focusing on arriving in the destination.