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original

adjective
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🔊/əˈrɪdʒənl/
🔊/əˈrɪdʒənl/
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  1.  
     [only before noun] existing at the beginning of a particular period, process or activity原来的；起初的；最早的
    • The room still has many of its original features.房间还保留着当初的许多特点。🔊🔊
    • I think you should go back to your original plan.我认为你应该回头执行你原来的计划。🔊🔊
    • At the end of the lease, the land will be returned to the original owner.租赁结束时，土地将归还给原所有者。
    • the original stage version of ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’“欲望号街车”的原始舞台版本
    • The original intention was to record about 80 speakers, divided equally between males and females.最初的意图是录制大约80位演讲者，男女分担。
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    • The clock was restored to its original condition.这个钟已经恢复原状。
    • The original findings conflict with more recent findings.最初的调查结果和最近的有冲突。
    • There have been many new findings since the original report.最初的报告发表之后又有许多新的发现。
  2.  
     new and interesting in a way that is different from anything that has existed before; able to produce new and interesting ideas首创的；独创的；有独创性的
    • an original idea独到的见解
    • That's not a very original suggestion.那个建议没什么新意。🔊🔊
    • an original thinker有创意的人
    • the product of a highly original mind高度原创思想的产物
    • It's a taut, fast-moving detective story with strikingly original characters. 这是一部紧绷，动作迅速的侦探小说，原著人物引人注目。
    • I don't think this is a truly original idea.我认为这不是一个真正的原创想法。
    • He believes that he is creating something wholly original.他相信自己正在创造完全是原创的东西。
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    • They are tackling the problem in a completely original way.他们正用全新的方法解决这个问题。
    • The film is challenging and highly original.这部电影复杂精巧，独树一帜。
    Topics Literature and writingb1
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs
    • be
    adverb
    • extremely
    • fairly
    • very
    • …
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     [usually before noun] painted, written, etc. by the artist rather than copied原作的；真迹的；非复制的
    • an original painting by local artist Graham Tovey一幅本土艺术家格雷厄姆 · 托维的绘画创作
    • The original manuscript has been lost.原稿已经遗失。🔊🔊
    • Only original documents (= not photocopies) will be accepted as proof of status.只有文件正本才能用作身份证明。🔊🔊
    4. Word OriginMiddle English (the earliest use being in the phrase original sin): from Old French, or from Latin originalis, from origin-, from oriri ‘to rise’.

original

noun
 
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  1.  
     a document, work of art, etc. produced for the first time, from which copies are later made原件；正本；原稿；原作
    • This painting is a copy; the original is in Madrid.这幅画是复制品，原画在马德里。🔊🔊
    • Send out the photocopies and keep the original.寄复印本，保留原件。🔊🔊
    • At that price, you could have bought an original!以这个价格，您可能已经买了原件！
    • He copied paintings of famous artists and passed them off as originals.他临摹著名画家的画作并用它们冒充原作。
    • Can you think of a movie remake that was better than the original? 您能想到比原版更好的电影翻拍吗？
    • The film stays romantically faithful to the 1963 original.这部电影浪漫地忠于1963年的原著。
    • Most items in the collection are exact copies of the originals.收藏品中的大多数物品都是原件的精确副本。
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverb + original
    • pass something off as
    preposition
    • in the original
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  2. (formal) a person who thinks, behaves, dresses, etc. in an unusual way（思想、行为、衣着等）不同寻常的人，独特的人，怪人
    • Mark Twain was a true original who possibly did more for American literature than any other writer.马克·吐温（Mark Twain）是一位真正的原创作家，他对美国文学的贡献可能超过其他任何作家。
    3. Word OriginMiddle English (the earliest use being in the phrase original sin): from Old French, or from Latin originalis, from origin-, from oriri ‘to rise’.
Idioms
in the original
  1. in the language in which a book, etc. was first written, before being translated用原著的语言；未经翻译
    • I studied Italian so that I would be able to read Dante in the original.我学习意大利语以便能读但丁的原著。🔊🔊
    • to read Tolstoy in the original读托尔斯泰的原著