The newspaper provides more foreign news than domestic news. 这家报纸刊登的国外消息多于国内消息。
His domestics are all in years. 他的佣人全都上了年纪。
domestic
[ noun ]
a servant who is paid to perform menial tasks around the household
<noun.person> [ adj ]
of concern to or concerning the internal affairs of a nation
<adj.all> domestic issues such as tax rate and highway construction
of or relating to the home
<adj.pert> domestic servant domestic science
of or involving the home or family
<adj.all> domestic worries domestic happiness they share the domestic chores everything sounded very peaceful and domestic an author of blood-and-thunder novels yet quite domestic in his taste
converted or adapted to domestic use
<adj.all> domestic animals domesticated plants like maize
produced in a particular country
<adj.all> domestic wine domestic oil
Domestic \Do*mes"tic\, n. 1. One who lives in the family of an other, as hired household assistant; a house servant.
The master labors and leads an anxious life, to secure plenty and ease to the domestic. --V. Knox.
2. pl. (Com.) Articles of home manufacture, especially cotton goods. [U. S.]
Domestic \Do*mes"tic\, a. [L. domesticus, fr. domus use: cf. F. domestique. See 1st {Dome}.] 1. Of or pertaining to one's house or home, or one's household or family; relating to home life; as, domestic concerns, life, duties, cares, happiness, worship, servants.
His fortitude is the more extraordinary, because his domestic feelings were unusually strong. --Macaulay.
4. Of or pertaining to a nation considered as a family or home, or to one's own country; intestine; not foreign; as, foreign wars and domestic dissensions. --Shak.
3. Remaining much at home; devoted to home duties or pleasures; as, a domestic man or woman.
4. Living in or near the habitations of man; domesticated; tame as distinguished from wild; as, domestic animals.
5. Made in one's own house, nation, or country; as, domestic manufactures, wines, etc.
Native \Na"tive\ (n[=a]"t[i^]v), a. [F. natif, L. nativus, fr. nasci, p. p. natus. See {Nation}, and cf. {Na["i]ve}, {Neif} a serf.] 1. Arising by birth; having an origin; born. [Obs.]
Anaximander's opinion is, that the gods are native, rising and vanishing again in long periods of times. --Cudworth.
2. Of or pertaining to one's birth; natal; belonging to the place or the circumstances in which one is born; -- opposed to {foreign}; as, native land, language, color, etc.
3. Born in the region in which one lives; as, a native inhabitant, race; grown or originating in the region where used or sold; not foreign or {imported}; as, native oysters, or strawberries. In the latter sense, synonymous with {domestic}. [1913 Webster +PJC]
4. Original; constituting the original substance of anything; as, native dust. --Milton.
5. Conferred by birth; derived from origin; born with one; inherent; inborn; not acquired; as, native genius, cheerfulness, wit, simplicity, rights, intelligence, etc. Having the same meaning as {congenital}, but typically used for positive qualities, whereas {congenital} may be used for negative qualities. See also {congenital} [1913 Webster +PJC]
the head is not more native to the heart, . . . Than is the throne of Denmark to thy father. --Shak.
7. (Min.) (a) Found in nature uncombined with other elements; as, native silver, copper, gold. (b) Found in nature; not artificial; as native sodium chloride.
{Native American party}. See under {American}, a.
{Native bear} (Zo["o]l.), the koala.
{Native bread} (Bot.), a large underground fungus, of Australia ({Mylitta australis}), somewhat resembling a truffle, but much larger.
{Native devil}. (Zo["o]l.) Same as {Tasmanian devil}, under {Devil}.
{Native hen} (Zo["o]l.), an Australian rail ({Tribonyx Mortierii}).
{Native pheasant}. (Zo["o]l.) See {Leipoa}.
{Native rabbit} (Zo["o]l.), an Australian marsupial ({Perameles lagotis}) resembling a rabbit in size and form.
{Native sloth} (Zo["o]l.), the koala.
{Native thrush} (Zo["o]l.), an Australian singing bird ({Pachycephala olivacea}); -- called also {thickhead}.
{Native turkey} (Zo["o]l.), the Australian bustard ({Choriotis australis}); -- called also {bebilya}.
Syn: Natural; natal; original; congenital.
Usage: {Native}, {Natural}, {Natal}. natural refers to the nature of a thing, or that which springs therefrom; native, to one's birth or origin; as, a native country, language, etc.; natal, to the circumstances of one's birth; as, a natal day, or star. Native talent is that which is inborn; natural talent is that which springs from the structure of the mind. Native eloquence is the result of strong innate emotion; natural eloquence is opposed to that which is studied or artificial.
This domestic morass also has become linked to the beginnings of a foreign-policy problem.
But the foreign and domestic challenges facing the United States remain as great as ever.
An 11 percent decline in domestic demand and a 17 percent drop in the British market also contributed to the lower profits, the report said.
It takes very little low margin domestic waste. Margins in the special waste division rose from 8 per cent to more than 20 per cent as the group moved out of treatment of bulk products and focused more on smaller, more hazardous chemicals.
Hungary, for example, lacks the domestic market of Poland, but embarked on market-type reforms much earlier while both the Hungarians and the Czechs have greater access to international capital markets.
Robert Falise, Irving's general counsel, said management views the Banca Commerciale offer as superior because, "We believe a partnership with a global financial institution makes much more sense than an acquisition by a domestic one."
One of the advantages of the global equity market that has emerged since the liberalisation of exchange controls in the 1980s is that it enables countries to seek international solutions to a wider range of domestic economic problems.
Mr. Spencer also said the company anticipates domestic sale approval from the Food and Drug Administration within 60 days of its small-diameter angiocatheter, which is inserted into occluded coronary arteries.
Frozen hams and canned pork are the main items bought by USDA for distribution to schools and other domestic programs.
Gunshots and tear gas were fired before he gave up, a domestic news service said today.
Mr. McNeill, 50 years old, has been in charge of the company's domestic construction operations.
Last August, Hafnia Holding, Baltica's main domestic rival, suspended payments after its equity capital was wiped out by losses on strategic shareholdings in Baltica and the Swedish insurer, Skandia.
It hopes output from Amino will serve the domestic Polish market as well as other east and central European countries.
"It is one of the points of the reform that is positive." Wilk said government policy had mandated that Autosan produce for the domestic bus market and for the Soviet Union at prices that were not profitable.
The VOA is a major source of information for millions of Chinese seeking information other than news reported by the tightly controlled domestic press.
The members differed on the inflation outlook, though they agreed that domestic price pressures didn't appear to be intensifying and that wage increases had remained moderate.
An administration official who briefed reporters on the package earlier shrugged off questions about why the domestic market was being treated differently than the imports when the weapons have the same firpower.
Instead, Mr. Bush said a sequester would cause big cuts in "student grants and a wide array of other domestic services." Student grants?
The reason: Both domestic and foreign companies will scurry to purchase undervalued assets in the expectation that mergers and takeovers will be less favorably viewed by a new administration in Washington next year.
Instead of depressing the dollar to correct the trade deficit, Mr. Hagens favors restraints on domestic demand to slow imports.
"This change is designed to improve the efficiency of conducting our business in today's highly competitive business environment," said S.M. Cassiani, vice president of exploration for Exxon USA, the domestic subsidiary of Exxon Corp.
Gross domestic product is the total market value of the country's output of goods and services.
In another step, the company will combine the management of its domestic and international exploration activities.
Bad economic news might encourage enough domestic investors to buy the securities to make up for any shortage of foreign investors, said Marilyn Schaja, a money market economist at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Securities Corp.
China Southern flies to 53 domestic cities from its home base and from stations in the cities of Wuhan, Changsha and Haikou.
With foreigners holding a 10 percent market share, domestic makers are starting to clamor for a dumping investigation.
Bush goes from West Germany to London, and returns to the United States on Friday, strengthened politically as he confronts the domestic agenda.
Wall Street had expected a modest rise in the company's domestic sales and earnings, and more substantial increases in overseas results.
There has been speculation here that interest rates may be headed higher because consumer demand threatens to outpace domestic production, leading to a surge of imports that would weaken the British pound and spur inflation.
In unison, they have in recent days complained of diminishing business, of rising non-performing loans and of high interest rates. Taken together, the net profits of the top six domestic banks fell by more than 7 per cent last year.