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.
雙語例句
1. A particular source of contention is plans to privatise state-run companies.
發(fā)生爭執(zhí)的一個根源就是國營公司的私有化方案。
來自柯林斯例句
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。
來自柯林斯例句
3. The professionalization of politics is a major source of our ills.
政治職業(yè)化是導致我們這些問題的一個主要原因。
來自柯林斯例句
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。
來自柯林斯例句
5. Diplomats can be a notoriously unreliable and misleading source of information.