migrate
verb- [intransitive]
(of birds, animals, etc. 鳥類、動物等 to move from one part of the world to another according to the season （随季節變化）遷徙 Extra ExamplesTopics Birdsb2Migrating birds often rest and feed in the marshes here. 候鳥經常在這裏的沼澤地休息和覓食。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- north
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(of a lot of people 許多人 to move from one town, country, etc. to go and live and/or work in another 移居；遷移 Thousands were forced to migrate from rural to urban areas in search of work. 成千上萬的人爲了尋找工作被迫從農村湧進城市。 Several thousand years ago whole populations migrated to north-west Europe. 幾千年前，整個人口遷移到歐洲西北部。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- north
- northwards
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- from
- into
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- [intransitive] (specialist)
to move from one place to another 移動；轉移 Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- north
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- [intransitive, transitive] migrate (somebody) (
computing 計算機 to change, or cause somebody to change, from one computer system to another （使）轉移（到另一計算機系統） - [transitive] migrate something (
computing 計算機 to move programs or hardware from one computer system to another 將（程序或硬件）遷移，轉移（到另一系統）
Word Originearly 17th cent. (in the general sense ‘move from one place to another’): from Latin migrat- ‘moved, shifted’, from the verb migrare.