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source

英 [sɔːs] 美[sɔrs]
  • n. 来源;水源;原始资料
  • n. (Source)人名;(法)苏尔斯

英英释意


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 person who supplies information
3. 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"
4. a document (or organization) from which information is obtained;
"the reporter had two sources for the story"
5. a facility where something is available
6. anything that provides inspiration for later work
7. someone who originates or causes or initiates something;
"he was the generator of several complaints"
8. (technology) a process by which energy or a substance enters a system;
"a heat source"
"a source of carbon dioxide"
9. 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"

双语例句


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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