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单词 original
释义
original
(ərɪdʒɪnəl )
Word forms: originals
1. adjective B1
You use original when referring to something that existed at the beginning of a process or activity, or the characteristics that something had when it began or was made.
The original plan was to hold an indefinite stoppage.
He was unable to identify the original name of the site.
2. countable noun B2
If something such as a document, a work of art, or a piece of writing is an original, it is not a copy or a later version.
When you have filled in the questionnaire, copy it and send the original to your employer.
For once the sequel is as good as the original.
Synonyms: prototype, master, pattern  
3. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] B2
An original document or work of art is not a copy.
...an original movie poster.
4. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] B1+
An original piece of writing or music was written recently and has not been published or performed before.
...its policy of commissioning original work.
...with catchy original songs by Richard Warner.
5. adjective B1+
If you describe someone or their work as original, you mean that they are very imaginative and have new ideas. [approval]
It is one of the most original works of imagination in the language.
...an original writer.
...a chef with an original touch and a measure of inspiration.
Synonyms: creative, inspired, imaginative, artistic  
originality (ərɪdʒɪnælɪti ) uncountable noun
He was capable of writing things of startling originality.
Synonyms: novelty, imagination, creativity, innovation  
6. in the original/in the original French/etc phrase
If you read or sing something in the original or, for example, in the original French, you read or sing it in the language it was written in, rather than a translation.
He read every book or author it deals with, often in the original.
The texts were sung in the original Italian.
Quotations:
Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly metFran LebowitzSocial Studies
Collocations:
original character
They've started warming up for their reunion with their original character traits intact.
Times, Sunday Times
Nicely furnished, with a homely farmhouse kitchen/diner and original character.
The Sun
They also remained keen to preserve the original character of the house, and did not install electricity, gas or mains water until well into the 20th century.
Times, Sunday Times
As production neared, it was decided to drop the relative angle and make the series about the original character, albeit updated to the late 1970s.
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These six cards were incredibly powerful at the time of release, and indeed, many of them eclipsed the power of the original character cards.
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original cover
I was going to sell it on the website at its original cover price.
Times, Sunday Times
This great prize also includes a rare 24 x 24in framed canvas of the original cover artwork.
The Sun
The edition proved so popular that 40,000 extra copies were printed; they continue to change hands as collectors' items for far more than their original cover price.
Times, Sunday Times
Covers featured geometric clover designs on lilac grey, with a vignette from one of the two volumes' original cover art.
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All re-issues of the album since 1981 however have different artwork, due to licensing problems concerning the original cover.
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original letter
The response might quote parts of the original letter verbatim to remind senders of what they had said.
The Times Literary Supplement
They accused the newspapers of strategically omitting certain paragraphs and words from the original letter to manipulate readers.
Times,Sunday Times
The original letter gave the chancellor considerable flexibility anyway.
Times, Sunday Times
I saw his original letter, in which there was no translation.
Times, Sunday Times
One of the letters required an urgent response but, as we missed it, we had to pay £450, which we could have avoided if we'd received the original letter.
The Sun
original owner
A year before the crisis broke in 1954 he wanted to give the property back to its original owner.
Times, Sunday Times
They are enforceable by the original owner of the large piece of land, who imposed the covenants, or by their successors in title.
Times, Sunday Times
This can result in the blame for a crime being passed to the original owner.
Times, Sunday Times
He became joint managing director of the company along with the original owner of the nursery.
Times, Sunday Times
The short-seller later buys back the shares to return to the original owner.
Times, Sunday Times
original painting
The original painting was valued in 2007 at more than $35 million (17 million).
Times, Sunday Times
The search for the original painting continues.
Times, Sunday Times
An inspired synthesis of the organic and the technological, like the band themselves, it's mci ot lt displayed with the original painting, from 1890.
Times, Sunday Times
The difficulties involved in removing the grime accumulated over centuries or the varnish and paint of previous restorers without altering the original painting have often unleashed bitter disputes.
Times, Sunday Times
This protection resulted in the original painting gaining valueit sold for nearly $5 million in 2002.
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original plan
Had the original plan remained in place, the objectors said, no payout would have been made.
Times, Sunday Times
It means: don't change your thoughts, simply think harder about the original plan.
Times, Sunday Times
The vast majority of new-builds are constructed correctly but there are reports that some have been built smaller than the original plan.
The Sun
But the original plan had been to work on it during the summer.
The Sun
The original plan had been to surprise the suspects as they slept in the early hours yesterday.
Times, Sunday Times
original print
Each new resident will be given an original print of a flower series he made specially for the building to hang outside their door.
Times, Sunday Times
The original print ran for an astonishing 10 hours.
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The original print release contains photographs of his family, friends, and his own experiences.
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The unexpectedly positive feedback from critics who had received the album convinced the label to consider increasing the album's original print run.
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This can only be proven with an original print.
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original production
It's a function of the show's serious purpose that the original production did without a choreographer.
Times, Sunday Times
The cast in the original production were much more hippie - etiolated individuals with bad teeth and sometimes rather lanky hair.
Times, Sunday Times
To amplify the film, they invited the surviving artists who featured in the original production to share their memories and to look back at the legend they created.
ST
One theatre historian has estimated that the original production earned $1,547 for every dollar invested in it.
Times, Sunday Times
There was, however, one serious flaw in the original production.
Times, Sunday Times
original programming
With perhaps the odd exception, it said it would be putting its money into original programming instead.
Times, Sunday Times
The channel's content would consist of recycled fishing shows, but also original programming such as a home shopping service and a daily one-hour show providing weather and fishing information.
Globe and Mail
The tech giant has earmarked $1 billion to spend on original programming in the next year as it aims to grab a slice of the booming video streaming market.
Times, Sunday Times
Its basic programming include numerous television series, sitcoms and movies, among others, which includes some original programming in certain regions.
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The plan was to offer original programming covering news, community and health issues, fashion, clubbing and travel.
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original proposal
Before the original proposal, homeowners in the area moved every 14 years on average.
Times, Sunday Times
The original proposal had been for the private equity firm to get 35 per cent of the company.
Times, Sunday Times
That promotion and relegation was given away so readily suggests it was simply ballast in the original proposal to provide some leverage.
Times, Sunday Times
The original proposal had been that this would start in 2008.
Times, Sunday Times
Daring to think big, the organisers promised, in the original proposal documents when private financing still seemed viable, a roomy 13 square metres per athlete.
Times, Sunday Times
original purpose
Today the stone offers no clue to its original purpose.
Smithsonian
And the letter's original purpose was to strengthen and assure new believers.
Christianity Today
Let me explain the original purpose of the magazine, why it folded, and the steps we took to close it graciously.
Christianity Today
We despise and distrust anyone who deviates from their original purpose.
Times, Sunday Times
In parallel, planning departments should be transformed to regain their original purpose: creating development rather than stifling it.
Times, Sunday Times
original recipe
The use of milk to soften the cod makes it a close relative of the original recipe.
ST
The original recipe was totally dairy-free, though it now contains a small amount of milk product.
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And that the original recipe will have been ruined.
Times, Sunday Times
The original recipe includes coriander seed but this simplified version doesn't.
Times, Sunday Times
The cod has been removed from the original recipe and replaced with pollock.
Times, Sunday Times
original recording
It still retains many features such as the original recording studio and grand-piano shaped swimming pool.
The Sun
In return for promising $50 million, he received the original recording device, microphone, transmitter and receiver.
Times, Sunday Times
The original recording was restricted to 200 copies.
The Times Literary Supplement
But in the original recording he did not.
Times,Sunday Times
His latest products contain new software that allows listeners to enjoy songs with mixes closer to what a listener would hear on an original recording.
Times, Sunday Times
original score
Sheet music of the original score was circulated.
Times, Sunday Times
The original score and first performance offers a performance practice that, in fact, takes a little time to master.
Times, Sunday Times
After listening to her, they changed parts of the original score to better match her vocal.
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The purpose of this was to create an original score which would be neither pop music nor standard game music.
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The poem was printed in full in the original score.
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original screenplay
He wrote an original screenplay which never made it into production but which did get him noticed.
Times, Sunday Times
Why not write an original screenplay that plays to the strengths of the medium you have chosen to work in?
Times,Sunday Times
Looking through the material he discovered that it contained the original screenplay which was markedly different from the finished film.
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After a year of deliberations, most of the original screenplay was rejected.
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Bringing you each week an outstanding original screenplay chosen and directed by one of the country's foremost motion picture directors.
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original script
Everybody agreed the original script was brilliant, but nobody could see how it would work as a film.
Times, Sunday Times
Acutely sensitive to their audience, the creators have tweaked the original script.
Times, Sunday Times
The documentary has been reconstructed using the original script.
Times, Sunday Times
Then it makes the films available alongside extra content, including deleted scenes and 'making of' documentaries, while also allowing the viewer to read the original script.
Times, Sunday Times
It was his last original script.
Times, Sunday Times
original size
After three years, the class had shrunk to a quarter of its original size.
Christianity Today
Can stretch to three times its original size.
Times, Sunday Times
The scrum followed, now doubled in original size with tourists on the fringes taking pictures on their mobile phones and squealing with excitement.
Times, Sunday Times
Graphene can be stretched up to 20 percent larger than its original size without breaking.
Smithsonian Mag
The second has shrunk to about half its original size and curled up.
Times, Sunday Times
original sketch
The team made her watch a video of the original sketch.
Times, Sunday Times
Lines or characters from sketches might recur throughout the show either as a continuation of the original sketch or an invasion of another one.
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Most of the lines are the same in the original sketch.
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Shows consist of a half-hour of original sketch comedy followed by a half-hour of improv.
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In addition to hosting a movie with a live audience, they also performed original sketch comedy routines.
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original song
After going through this process, the lyrics barely resemble the original song.
Times,Sunday Times
But what was the original song called, and who was the artist?
Times, Sunday Times
Post an original song without any buzz or marketing behind it and you'll struggle to match that in a year.
Times, Sunday Times
And great covers can show as much creativity as an original song.
Times, Sunday Times
Each episode ends with an original song, which reiterates new things learned.
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original source
Every historian who describes that scene quotes from the original source.
Times, Sunday Times
These were not mere reproductions but a true re-printing from the original source, be it linocut, wood or copper engraving.
Times, Sunday Times
These can illuminate an argument and point to the riches of the original source.
Times, Sunday Times
But it must be actual research and the original source, not just another citation of the website numbers.
Christianity Today
I can't find an original source for it.
Christianity Today
original structure
Although the original structure has been battered by centuries of warfare, services have been said and sung in it daily for nearly 900 years.
Times, Sunday Times
If we stick to the original structure, we can also spend more on the ground floor.
Times, Sunday Times
By this time, the original structure had been enlarged and remodelled, turning it into an elegant three-storey home.
Times, Sunday Times
Situated in a cherry orchard, the original structure dates back to the 17th century.
Times, Sunday Times
The newly uncovered steps appear to belong to the original structure, making them a particularly special find.
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original text
This type of figurative exegesis offends modern academic sensibilities, because it violates the integrity of the original text.
Times, Sunday Times
It must be the fruit of the original text.
The Times Literary Supplement
The novella was immediately banned, the print run confiscated by the authorities, and the original text not reproduced for twenty years.
The Times Literary Supplement
By 1960, over 500 different editions of the memoirs had appeared, most of them bearing little relation to the original text.
The Times Literary Supplement
This enthralling documentary explores an epic search for the original text.
The Sun
original thinker
He was not an original thinker, he was not a very profound thinker, but he was one of those thinkers whose thoughts become acts.
Times, Sunday Times
Oak wasn't actually a professor, but he was certainly a stimulating and original thinker.
Times, Sunday Times
An original thinker, a huge personality.
Times, Sunday Times
He also won national and transatlantic reputation as an original thinker and writer on education.
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He began lecturing to astrologers in 1963 and gained a reputation for being an original thinker and stimulating speaker.
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original title
For fans of the original title, there are new areas and bosses to master, plus a co-op mode for two-player fun.
Times, Sunday Times
The original title seemed in order in this performance.
Times, Sunday Times
Name the original title, the title after being shortlisted and the author.
Times, Sunday Times
The conveyancer will need the original title deed of the owner's section and any mortgage bond registered over the section.
ST
Its original title means 'hearts torn to pieces', a more appropriate description of the book's content.
Times, Sunday Times
original version
Whoever finds the bronze owl can exchange it for an original version made from gold and silver and studded with diamonds.
Times,Sunday Times
The original version contained some rather elaborate jokes, which he feared would not translate very well.
Times, Sunday Times
The original version of the routine included lines that did seem to unsettle the crowd.
Times, Sunday Times
The original version was spread over three volumes and this edition invites the reader to persevere through 600 pages.
Christianity Today
It's really difficult to take a great soul song and redo it remotely as cool as the original version.
The Sun
original vision
This collection had touches of that original vision, and it still looked modern.
Times, Sunday Times
The original vision for the prize was to reward enjoyable books of all sorts.
Times, Sunday Times
In all the others, 'the academic had always intruded and destroyed the artist', obliterating his original vision: 'le prime impressioni, il primo sentimento'.
The Times Literary Supplement
Their original vision was to construct a world-class stadium to host cricket and hockey tournaments.
Times, Sunday Times
Do not lose sight of your original vision - go with your gut.
Times, Sunday Times
true original
Your heart flickers then falls for a true original with a quirky sense of style.
The Sun
You are a true original in many ways and other people are ready to recognise this.
The Sun
We may be better equipped in hindsight than in the present day to see the true original.
The Times Literary Supplement
He was a true original, out on his own and impossible to pin down.
Times, Sunday Times
Something to be treasured from a true original.
The Sun
wholly original
It's ingenious, wholly original (not a given, what with the subject matter), absolutely gripping, funny, sad and moving.
Times,Sunday Times
Somehow, however, the unearthly spawn of these influences sounds wholly original.
Times, Sunday Times
After that study she had her wholly original idea for the construction of her subsequent biographies.
Times, Sunday Times
At other moments, though, it seemed wholly original.
Times, Sunday Times
And to be fair, she has carved a wholly original look for herself.
Times, Sunday Times
Translations:
Chinese: 最初的, 原件
Japanese: 最初の, 本物
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