native1/ˋnetIv; ˈneItIv/adj 1 [only before noun 仅用于名词前] relating to the place where you were born or have always lived 出生地的: He returned to his native Poland. 他回到了故乡波兰。native Californian/New Yorker etc 土生土长的加利福尼亚人/纽约人等native language/tongue (=the language you first learned to speak) 母语[本国语﹐本地语]2 a native plant or animal grows or lives naturally somewhere, and was not brought there from somewhere else〔动植物〕土生的﹐当地的: native species of trees 当地土生的树种
native2n [C] 1 someone who was born in a particular country 出生于某地的人: +of a native of Brazil 一个巴西的本地人2 [usually plural 一般用复数] old-fashioned a word used in the past to refer to the people who lived in Africa, America etc before Europeans arrived. Many people now consider this use to be offensive.【过时】土著人〔旧时对先于欧洲人居住在非洲﹑美洲等地的当地人的称呼; 现在许多人认为此词具冒犯性〕