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单词 original
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original

adjective
 OPAL W
/əˈrɪdʒənl/
/əˈrɪdʒənl/
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  1.  
    [only before noun] existing at the beginning of a particular period, process or activity
    • The room still has many of its original features.
    • I think you should go back to your original plan.
    • At the end of the lease, the land will be returned to the original owner.
    • the original stage version of ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’
    • The original intention was to record about 80 speakers, divided equally between males and females.
    Extra Examples
    • The clock was restored to its original condition.
    • The original findings conflict with more recent findings.
    • There have been many new findings since the original report.
  2.  
    new and interesting in a way that is different from anything that has existed before; able to produce new and interesting ideas
    • an original idea
    • That's not a very original suggestion.
    • an original thinker
    • the product of a highly original mind
    • It's a taut, fast-moving detective story with strikingly original characters.
    • I don't think this is a truly original idea.
    • He believes that he is creating something wholly original.
    Extra Examples
    • They are tackling the problem in a completely original way.
    • The film is challenging and highly original.
    Topics Literature and writingb1
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs
    • be
    adverb
    • extremely
    • fairly
    • very
    See full entry
  3.  
    [usually before noun] painted, written, etc. by the artist rather than copied
    • an original painting by local artist Graham Tovey
    • The original manuscript has been lost.
    • Only original documents (= not photocopies) will be accepted as proof of status.
  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
 
/əˈrɪdʒənl/
/əˈrɪdʒənl/
Idioms
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  1.  
    a document, work of art, etc. produced for the first time, from which copies are later made
    • This painting is a copy; the original is in Madrid.
    • Send out the photocopies and keep the original.
    • At that price, you could have bought an original!
    • He copied paintings of famous artists and passed them off as originals.
    • Can you think of a movie remake that was better than the original?
    • The film stays romantically faithful to the 1963 original.
    • Most items in the collection are exact copies of the originals.
    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
    • Mark Twain was a true original who possibly did more for American literature than any other writer.
  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
    • I studied Italian so that I would be able to read Dante in the original.
    • to read Tolstoy in the original
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