人们把自己毕业或肄业的学校称为“母校”。“母校”这个词,顾名思义和“祖国”这个词一样,字义明确,结构相当,具有我国词语的特色,很像是我国固有的词语。其实不然,这个词是20世纪初由日本传入的外来语,只是浑成自然,看不出外来的痕迹而已。 People refer to their graduated or matriculated school as their “alma mater.” The term “alma mater”, as its name implies, is synonymous with the word “motherland,” with a clear meaning and a fairly structured structure. It has the characteristics of our country’s words, much like the inherent words in our country. In actual fact, the word was introduced from Japan in the early twentieth century loanwords, but muddled into nature, can not see the external traces of it.