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- n. 來源；水源；原始資料
- n. (Source)人名；(法)蘇爾斯
英英釋意
- 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. a person who supplies information
- 3. a publication (or a passage from a publication) that is referred to;
- "he carried an armful of references back to his desk"
- "he spent hours looking for the source of that quotation"
- 4. a document (or organization) from which information is obtained;
- "the reporter had two sources for the story"
- 5. a facility where something is available
- 6. anything that provides inspiration for later work
- 7. someone who originates or causes or initiates something;
- "he was the generator of several complaints"
- 8. (technology) a process by which energy or a substance enters a system;
- "a heat source"
- "a source of carbon dioxide"
- 9. anything (a person or animal or plant or substance) in which an infectious agent normally lives and multiplies;
- "an infectious agent depends on a reservoir for its survival"