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Originality is the quality of being new — not a copy, not the usual idea, not the same as what everyone else already made. A story has originality when the idea feels fresh. A student shows originality when the answer is their own, not lifted from the page. Teachers praise it; companies say they want it. Though actually, people also use it loosely, as a kind word that just means I liked this or this looks a bit different. Full originality is rare: most new things are old pieces put together in a new way. You do not say an originality. It is the quality itself, not a countable thing.
原創性、獨創性
原始詞典資料4 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。
originalitynoun/əˌɹɪd͡ʒɪˈnælɪti/
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The quality of being original or novel.
- The space at my disposal does not permit me to go into Mr. Bulleid's paper in detail, but it is impossible to refrain from an expression of admiration at the originality that has been packed into this outstanding design.
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The capacity to think independently or be inventive.
- Originality may be the capacity to look at the same facts and see new explanations.
- This story of how American originality lost its way is arresting and well told. On an alternate timeline without Donald Trump in office dismantling the American scientific establishment and Elon Musk kneecapping the American state, it might have been the manifesto of a new politics.
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Something original.
- This houses a waiting room and gentlemen's toilets which, despite some new sanitary fittings in early BR days, fell out of use over 40 years ago, becoming dilapidated - and so remained as the only room on the station to retain its originality.
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The original state or condition of a thing.
- Church Street has been reclaimed from vendors who had encroached every bit of pedestrian walk. BBMP evicted more than 70 of them and restored to its originality.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。