Language Activator – come from

اغلب دیکشنری ها لغاتی را مترادف یک لغت معرفی میکنند. اما آیا تمامی مترادفهای یک لغت صد در صد معنای همان لغت را القا میکنند؟ مسلماً خیر. در این بخش از آفرینش اکتیوتر لغات هم معنی و یا نزدیک به لغت come from را بررسی خواهیم کرد.

:Fill in the blanks with appropriate words

come from / be a native of / be… by birth / of… ancestry

.N1. She …………………… from Japan

N2. Hughes, who is a ……………………… of Belfast, often uses the city as a setting for his novels

. ………………… N3. She’s lived in Australia for a long time, but she’s Welsh by

. ………………… N4. There are roughly 40 million Americans of Irish

:Answers

N1. comes
N2. native
N3. birth
N4. ancestry

come from/be from (transitive phrasal verb not in progressive/verb phrase not in progressive)

if you come from or are from a particular place, that is where you were born or where you lived for a long time

.She comes from Japan
?Where are you from

:be a native of Tokyo/London/Wales, etc

to have been born in and to have spent the early part of your life in that place — used especially when you are writing about someone’s life

.Hughes, who is a native of Belfast, often uses the city as a setting for his novels

:be American/French/Japanese, etc by birth (verb phrase)

to have been born in a particular country or to be a citizen of that country because your parents come from there, especially when you now live somewhere else

.She’s lived in Australia for a long time, but she’s Welsh by birth

:Scottish/Russian, etc ancestry

relatives of yours that are now dead came from that country a long time ago

.There are roughly 40 million Americans of Irish ancestry