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

• Renault and Michelin head for their home ground at Magny-Cours this weekend hoping that normal business will be resumed after ferrari's rampant domination of the United States Grand prix.
  雷诺和米其林已经动身前往本周末在马格尼-库斯赛道举行的家乡赛。而在参加了法拉利具有统治性表现的美国大奖赛之后，他们希望还将会继续拥有正常的表现。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• I usually make my home in shallow holes in the ground called burrows.
  我通常把家安在地里的浅洞中，称为“洞穴”。
• The team will be playing on home ground.
  那个队将在主场比赛。
• Is a team more likely to win a match when playing on its home ground?
  球队在主场比赛胜利的可能性是否大一点？
• 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。
• When the train crossed the border, I felt like I was on home ground.
  当火车穿过边界时，我感到像是在家乡一样。
• 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。