Origin

(noun.) properties attributable to your ancestry; 'he comes from good origins'.

(noun.) the point of intersection of coordinate axes; where the values of the coordinates are all zero.

(noun.) an event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events.

(noun.) the source of something's existence or from which it derives or is derived; 'the rumor had its origin in idle gossip'; 'vegetable origins'; 'mineral origin'; 'origin in sensation'.

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• Astronomers and geologists and those who study physics have been able to tell us something of the origin and history of the earth. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• I alluded to the coldness of her letters; but the few minutes we had spent together sufficiently explained the origin of this. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• The second book begins with an account of different philosophic al views concerning the origin of matter, and a discussion of the earliest dwellings of man. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• In order to answer this question, let us recollect what we have already established concerning the origin of government and political society. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• What was the Origin of Masonic Signs? 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The doctrine of the origin of our several domestic races from several aboriginal stocks, has been carried to an absurd extreme by some authors. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• I may here premise, that I have nothing to do with the origin of the mental powers, any more than I have with that of life itself. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• It is no valid objection that science as yet throws no light on the far higher problem of the essence or origin of life. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• You reproach me with my origin,' said Bradley Headstone; 'you cast insinuations at my bringing-up. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• The ideas and methods of Murdoch and Lebon soon took definite shape, and coal smoke was piped from its place of origin to distant points of consumption. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Archeologists have deprived the Greeks of this gift, and carried back its origin to remoter ages and localities. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Hence the origin of the representation of burghs in the states-general of all great monarchies in Europe. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Twill therefore be proper, before we leave this subject, to bestow a few reflections on that passion, and shew its origin in human nature. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• Many of the cardinals were of French origin, and their habits and associations were rooted deep at Avignon. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Its origin, like the telescope, is hidden in the dim distance of the past, but it is believed to antedate the telescope. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Korea long ago went a step farther and developed a true alphabet from the same Chinese origins. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• It was, therefore, a different thing in its origins from the nobility of the early Aryans, which was a republican nobility of elders and leading men. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Ne vertheless, if you seek the very origins of the sciences, you will inevitably be drawn to the banks of the Nile, and to the valleys of the Tigris and the Euphrates. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• However complicated the origins of currency, its practical effect and the end it has to serve in the community may be stated roughly in simple terms. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Generally speaking, we know best what we know in its origins. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Rich men of all origins were being drawn together into a common interest against the communistic ideas of the poor. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Justinian closed and dispersed the schools of Athens (529), whose origins we have described in chap. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• But of the origins and quality of Christianity we will tell more fully in a later chapter. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Nobody knew anything of the origins of civilization. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Poland was in fact in its origins an outlying part of Christendom and of the Holy Empire; Russia never was anything of the sort. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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