origin

英 ['ɒrɪdʒɪn] 美 ['ɔːrɪdʒɪn]

• n. 起源；出身；[数]原点；起因

双解释义

n. (名词)

1. 起点,来源

   starting-point; source

2. [P]出身,来历

   person's parentage, background, etc.

详尽释义

n. 名词

1. 起源，根源，渊源， 源泉，本源
2. 出身，出生，身世，门第
3. 起点，开始，源头，发端
4. 【数】原点
5. 由来，起因
6. 【解】起端
7. 基因

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. properties attributable to your ancestry;

   "he comes from good origins"
   

3. an event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events

4. the point of intersection of coordinate axes; where the values of the coordinates are all zero

5. the source of something's existence or from which it derives or is derived;

   "the rumor had its origin in idle gossip"
   "vegetable origins"
   "mineral origin"
   "origin in sensation"
   

6. the descendants of one individual;

   "his entire lineage has been warriors"
   

例句

用作名词 (n.)

1. The social unrest has its origins in economic problems.
   社会动荡是经济问题引起的。
2. This is the true story of the weeds: the origin of the species.
   这是一个关于野草的真实故事:关于他们的物种起源。
3. He is a Dane by origin.
   他原籍丹麦。
4. The family had its origin in Canada.
   这家祖上是加拿大人。

常见句型

用作名词 (n.)

1. Many words in the English language are French in origin.
   英语中的许多词源于法语。
2. What's the origin of your anxiety?
   你焦虑的根源是什么?
3. He is considered to be of noble origin.
   人们都认为他出身高贵。

经典引文

• Begin at the beginning, with the very origin of life itself.

  出自： R. Dawkins

• The origins of socialism can be traced back as far as the time of Christ.

  出自： T. Benn

词汇搭配

用作名词 (n.)

动词+～

• determine〔explain, enquire into〕 the origin 确定〔解释,探索〕起源

形容词+～

• humble〔low〕 origins 卑微〔低贱〕的出身
• the same〔common〕 origin 相同的起源

～+介词

• the origin of… 的起源

词语用法

1. 表示某人或某物怎么样的出身或起源时，用主语+of+形容词+origin的表达结构，注意of后没有a/the。例如men of humble origin（出身卑贱的人）， words of Latin origin（起源拉丁语的文字）等；
2. 在一些特定句子中，人们习惯用origin的复数形式origins。

   Nothing certain is known of his origins.
   His origins were humble.

词义辨析

n. (名词)

origin, source

• 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。

词源解说

• ☆ 15世纪初期进入英语，直接源自法语的origine；最初源自拉丁语的originem，意为起来，开始。

近反义词

【近义词】

• root
• source

【反义词】

• result