source

英[sɔːs] 美[sɔːrs]
  • n. 来源;发源地;原始资料
  • v. 从...获得
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星级词汇:
    n. (名词)
    1. 原始资料
    2. 出处
    3. 源,来源,根源,原因
    4. 消息或证据来源,提供消息者
    5. 源头,水源,<古>源泉
    6. 发起者,创造者,创造者
    7. 原型,模型
    8. <古>世系,血统
    9. 【物】源,【电】源极,电源,信号源
    10. (投资等)利息的支付者
    v. (动词)
    1. 发源
    2. 寻求来源
    3. 发起,引起,向...提供消息
    4. (从特定来源)获得
    n. (名词)
    1. [C] 河流的源头,发源地 starting-point of a river
    2. [C] 来源,出处 place from which sth comes or is obtained
    3. [C] 原因 a cause
    4. [C] 提供资料者,资料来源 a person or thing that supplies information

英英释义

Noun:
  1. the place where something begins, where it springs into being;

    "the Italian beginning of the Renaissance"
    "Jupiter was the origin of the radiation"
    "Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River"
    "communism's Russian root"

  2. a document (or organization) from which information is obtained;

    "the reporter had two sources for the story"

  3. anything that provides inspiration for later work

  4. a facility where something is available

  5. a person who supplies information

  6. someone who originates or causes or initiates something;

    "he was the generator of several complaints"

  7. (technology) a process by which energy or a substance enters a system;

    "a heat source"
    "a source of carbon dioxide"

  8. anything (a person or animal or plant or substance) in which an infectious agent normally lives and multiplies;

    "an infectious agent depends on a reservoir for its survival"

  9. a publication (or a passage from a publication) that is referred to;

    "he carried an armful of references back to his desk"
    "he spent hours looking for the source of that quotation"

Verb:
  1. get (a product) from another country or business;

    "She sourced a supply of carpet"
    "They are sourcing from smaller companies"

  2. specify the origin of;

    "The writer carefully sourced her report"

1. A particular source of contention is plans to privatise state-run companies.
发生争执的一个根源就是国营公司的私有化方案。

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2. We're interested in the source of these fictitious rumours.
我们对这些子虚乌有的谣言从何而来很感兴趣。

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3. The professionalization of politics is a major source of our ills.
政治职业化是导致我们这些问题的一个主要原因。

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4. The Middle East is the world's single most important source of oil.
中东是世界上最为重要的一个产油地。

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5. Diplomats can be a notoriously unreliable and misleading source of information.
外交官可能会提供一些靠不住的误导性信息,这是众所周知的。

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    用作名词 (n.)
    1. My wages are the principal source of my income.
      薪金是我收入的主要来源。
    2. Hard work is the ultimate source of success.
      努力工作是成功之本。
    3. Where is the source of the Yellow River?
      黄河的发源地在哪儿?
    4. The library has quantities of reference sources.
      该图书馆藏有大量可供参考的原始资料。
    5. They gathered up from various sources a great amount of firsthand data.
      他们从各种来源搜集了大量的第一手资料。
    用作动词 (v.)
    1. We source all the meat sold in our stores from British farms.
      我们商店里卖的肉均从英国农场购进。
    用作名词 (n.)
    1. Where is the source of the Nile?
      尼罗河发源于何处?
    2. They are trying to trace the source of the trouble.
      他们正设法找出这件麻烦事的起因。
    3. This faulty connection is the source of the engine trouble.
      这种错误的连接法是引擎出毛病的原因。
    4. I've heard from a reliable source that company is running very badly.
      我已从一位可靠人士那儿获悉,这家公司经营的非常糟糕。
  1. source指河流的“源”,常以复数形式sources出现,如the sources of the Rhine(莱茵河的发源地);
  2. source本身指原始资料,不能加original修饰,没有original source的说法;
  3. source指“消息来源”时,通常不举出具体的消息来源。
n. (名词)
source, origin
  • 这两个词均可指事物的起点。origin多指“始于遥远的时间或地点”; source多用于隐喻,说明河流的源头或收入、情报、消息等来源。
  • origin,source,root
  • 这些名词均有“起源、起因、根源”之意。
  • origin侧重指事物的起源或由来,也指人的出身。
  • source本义指河流或瀑布的源头,引申指某事的来源出处,但更多指抽象事物的根源或来源。
  • root通常指事物产生的原因或根源。
  • 用作名词 (n.)
    at source
      在源头,在发源地at the point of origin or beginning
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