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’. => surge
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.
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.