source

英 [s??s] 美[s?rs]

IELTSCET4TEM4考研CET6中高頻詞基本詞匯

復數:?sources;第三人稱單數:?sources;過去式:?sourced;過去分詞:?sourced;現在分詞:?sourcing;

source 來源，出處，源頭

來自古法語 sourse,升起，開始，泉源，水源，來自拉丁語 surgere,縮寫自 surrigere,升起，來自 sur-,向上，regere,升直，拉直，詞源同 regulate,erect,surge,sortie.引申諸相關詞義。

source: source: [14] A source is etymologically something that has ‘surged’ up. The word comes from Old French sourse ‘spring’, a noun use of the feminine past participle of sourdre ‘rise, spring’. This in turn was descended from Latin surgere ‘rise’, source of English surge. The notion of the ‘place where a watercourse springs from the ground’ led on naturally to the metaphorical ‘place of origin’.
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source (n.): mid-14c., "support, base," from Old French sourse "a rising, beginning, fountainhead of a river or stream" (12c.), fem. noun taken from past participle of sourdre "to rise, spring up," from Latin surgere "to rise" (see surge (n.)). Meaning "a first cause" is from late 14c., as is that of "fountain-head of a river." Meaning "person or written work supplying information or evidence" is by 1777.
source (v.): "obtain from a specified source," 1972, from source (n.). Related: Sourced; sourcing.

1. A particular source of contention is plans to privatise state-run companies.: 發生爭執的一個根源就是國營公司的私有化方案。

2. We're interested in the source of these fictitious rumours.: 我們對這些子虛烏有的謠言從何而來很感興趣。

3. The professionalization of politics is a major source of our ills.: 政治職業化是導致我們這些問題的一個主要原因。

4. The Middle East is the world's single most important source of oil.: 中東是世界上最為重要的一個產油地。

5. Diplomats can be a notoriously unreliable and misleading source of information.: 外交官可能會提供一些靠不住的誤導性信息，這是眾所周知的。