核心畫面

Picture tracing a river back upstream until you reach the spring it comes out of. Origin is that starting point — the place, the moment, or the situation where something first came into being, before it grew into what you see now.

可以想成:沿著一條河一直往上游走,最後走到水冒出來的那個泉眼。origin 就是那個起點——一樣東西最初出現的地方、更多收起可以想成:沿著一條河一直往上游走,最後走到水冒出來的那個泉眼。origin 就是那個起點——一樣東西最初出現的地方、時間或情況,在它長成你現在看到的樣子之前。

From the picture

一個人的出身背景

把上游的畫面用在人身上:一個人是從哪個國家、哪個文化、哪個家庭走過來的。同樣是往回追到起點,只是這次追的是身世。

family background · noun · B2

The country, culture, or family background that a person comes from.

出身;血統

Also in this word

origin; source · noun · B2

The place, time, or situation where something first begins to exist.

起源;由來

原始詞典資料7 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

Originname

  • 1

    the State of Origin series (an annual best-of-three rugby league series between New South Wales and Queensland, nicknamed the "Blues" and the "Maroons", respectively)

originnoun/ˈɒɹ.ɪ.d͡ʒɪn/

  • 1

    The beginning of something.

    • place of origin
    • trace the origin of something
  • 2

    The source of a river, information, goods, etc.

    • It is clear that the origin of the truth would be an admirable criterion of this sort, if only the various origins could be discriminated from one another from this point of view, and the history of dogmatic opinion shows that origin has always been a favorite test. Origin in immediate intuition; origin in pontifical authority; origin in supernatural revelation, as by vision, hearing, or unaccountable impression; origin in direct possession by a higher spirit, expressing itself in prophecy and warning; origin in automatic utterance generally,—these origins have been stock warrants for the truth of one opinion after another which we find represented in religious history.
    • Swearing doesn't just mean what we now understand by "dirty words". It is entwined, in social and linguistic history, with the other sort of swearing: vows and oaths. Consider for a moment the origins of almost any word we have for bad language – "profanity", "curses", "oaths" and "swearing" itself.
  • 3

    mathematicssciencesThe point at which the axes of a coordinate system intersect.

  • 4

    anatomymedicinesciencesThe proximal end of attachment of a muscle to a bone that will not be moved by the action of that muscle.

  • 5

    cartographygeographynatural-sciencesAn arbitrary point on Earth's surface, chosen as the zero for a system of coordinates.

  • 6

    Ancestry.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。