native的意思

A：People always say that Chinese and English are very hard to learn. Sometimes I wish I were learning French or Japanese. Maybe they'd be easier.
      人们常说汉语和英语是很难学的。有的时候我想要是我学法语或日语就好了。 也许这两种语言容易些。

B：Maybe, but maybe not too. It all depends on what language you already speak.
      可能，不过也可能不太容易。这要看你原来是说什么语言的。

A：Why should that be? What diffrence does it make?
      为什么呢？这有什么关系？

B：Well, languages are more or less equally difficult.Most of the things one language says must be said by every language in some way.
      哦，语言大体上都是同样地难学。一种语言中所说的绝大部分东西，在别的语言中差不多都有。

A：You mean I could learn Chinese easily?
      你的意思是说我学汉语会很容易？

B：No, because your native language is Spanish. But Italian might be easy. It has a lot of words that are similar to words in Spanish. Even the sound systems are more similar than that of Chinese is to Spanish. How difficult a language is to learn depends mostly on how much it resembles your own language.
      不，因为你的母语是西班牙语。所以意大利语可能容易些。它有很多词同西班牙语相似。连它的语音体系也比汉语更接近西班牙语。一种语言是否难学，主要看它在多大程度上同自己的语言相近。

1. . 出生地的;儿时居住的
    Your native country or area is the country or area where you were born and brought up

native的近义词

    e.g. It was his first visit to his native country since 1948...
           这是自1948年以来他首次回到自己的祖国。
    e.g. Mother Teresa visited her native Albania.
           特雷莎修女访问了她的祖国阿尔巴尼亚。

2. 本国人;本地人
    A native of a particular country or region is someone who was born in that country or region.

    e.g. Dr Aubin is a native of St Blaise.
           奥宾博士是圣布莱斯人。
    e.g. ...two Dutch volunteer workmen, natives of Tilburg.
           来自蒂尔堡的两个荷兰志愿工人

3. 土人，土著(一些欧洲人指非西方国家的原住民，可能具冒犯意味)
    Some European people use native to refer to a person living in a non-Western country who belongs to the race or tribe that the majority of people there belong to. This use could cause offence.

    e.g. They used force to banish the natives from the more fertile land.
           他们使用武力把土著居民驱逐出了比较肥沃的土地。

4. (语言)本国的，出生地的
    Your native language or tongue is the first language that you learned to speak when you were a child.

    e.g. She spoke not only her native language, Swedish, but also English and French...
           她不仅讲自己的母语瑞典语，还讲英语和法语。
    e.g. French is not my native tongue.
           法语不是我的母语。

5. (动植物)当地土生的，原产地的
    Plants or animals that are native to a particular region live or grow there naturally and were not brought there.

    e.g. ...a project to create a 50 acre forest of native Caledonian pines...
           营造50英亩喀里多尼亚土生松树林的项目
    e.g. Many of the plants are native to Brazil.
           这些植物中有很多原产地在巴西。

6. (能力或品质)生来就有的，天赋的
    A native ability or quality is one that you possess naturally without having to learn it.

    e.g. We have our native inborn talent, yet we hardly use it.
           我们有天生的才能，但我们却几乎未曾使用过。

7. (移居他国的人)入乡随俗，同化
    If you say that someone who is living away from their own country goes native, you mean that they try to live and dress like the local people.

    e.g. You don't think he's gone native, do you? Perhaps he has married out there and decided he can't come home.
           你觉得他并没有入乡随俗，是吗？可能他和那里的人结了婚，认定回不了家了。