Source
[sɔːs] or [sɔrs]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a facility where something is available.
(noun.) anything that provides inspiration for later work.
(noun.) a document (or organization) from which information is obtained; 'the reporter had two sources for the story'.
(noun.) (technology) a process by which energy or a substance enters a system; 'a heat source'; 'a source of carbon dioxide'.
(verb.) specify the origin of; 'The writer carefully sourced her report'.
(verb.) get (a product) from another country or business; 'She sourced a supply of carpet'; 'They are sourcing from smaller companies'.
校對:西尔玛--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The act of rising; a rise; an ascent.
(n.) The rising from the ground, or beginning, of a stream of water or the like; a spring; a fountain.
(n.) That from which anything comes forth, regarded as its cause or origin; the person from whom anything originates; first cause.
手打:莉莲
同義詞及近義詞:
n. [1]. Origin, spring, fountain, head, rise, cradle, beginning, commencement, fountain-head, starting point.[2]. Cause, original.
編輯:莉莉
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Rise, origin, spring, fount, fountain, cause, commencement, beginning
ANT:Mouth, debouchure, termination, end, exit, issue, result, effect
加德纳整理
解釋/意思:
n. that from which anything rises or originates: origin: the spring from which a stream flows.
杰西編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- Reason is wholly inactive, and can never be the source of so active a principle as conscience, or a sense of morals. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- This principle we derive from experience, and is the source of most of our philosophical reasonings. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- This was a class of plant which the inquirers desired to purchase outright and operate themselves, usually because of remoteness from any possible source of general supply of current. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- This leads us to consider the fifth source of authority, viz. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- Such colonies, therefore, have been a source of expense, and not of revenue, to their respective mother countries. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- She was jealous of him, but there was another and graver source of trouble in her passion for religious mysteries. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- And she did not speak, but only pressed her hands firmer down upon the source of darkness in him. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- The yield from both sources has considerably decreased. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- I began with such scanty sources of information as were at my own disposal. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Supplies were growing scarce in Richmond, and the sources from which to draw them were in our hands. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- The conservation of the forest means the conservation of our waterways, whether these be used for transportation or as sources of drinking water. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- Of all the sources of evil surrounding the former, since her coming to Highbury, she was persuaded that she must herself have been the worst. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- Every tax must finally be paid from some one or other of those three different sources of revenue, or from all of them indifferently. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- But I was restlessly curious to look at her--so curious that I felt it to be one of the few sources of entertainment left to me. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
海伦娜編輯