migrate
verb- [intransitive]
(of birds, animals, etc. 鸟类、动物等 to move from one part of the world to another according to the season （随季节变化）迁徙 Extra ExamplesTopics Birdsb2Migrating birds often rest and feed in the marshes here. 候鸟经常在这里的沼泽地休息和觅食。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- north
- northwards
- etc.
- …
- from
- into
- to
- …
- [intransitive]
(of a lot of people 许多人 to move from one town, country, etc. to go and live and/or work in another 移居；迁移 Thousands were forced to migrate from rural to urban areas in search of work. 成千上万的人为了寻找工作被迫从农村涌进城市。 Several thousand years ago whole populations migrated to north-west Europe. 几千年前，整个人口迁移到欧洲西北部。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- north
- northwards
- etc.
- …
- from
- into
- to
- …
- [intransitive] (specialist)
to move from one place to another 移动；转移 Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- north
- northwards
- etc.
- …
- from
- into
- to
- …
- [intransitive, transitive] migrate (somebody) (
computing 计算机 to change, or cause somebody to change, from one computer system to another （使）转移（到另一计算机系统） - [transitive] migrate something (
computing 计算机 to move programs or hardware from one computer system to another 将（程序或硬件）迁移，转移（到另一系统）
Word Originearly 17th cent. (in the general sense ‘move from one place to another’): from Latin migrat- ‘moved, shifted’, from the verb migrare.