Source

(noun.) a facility where something is available.

(noun.) anything that provides inspiration for later work.

(noun.) a document (or organization) from which information is obtained; 'the reporter had two sources for the story'.

(noun.) (technology) a process by which energy or a substance enters a system; 'a heat source'; 'a source of carbon dioxide'.

(verb.) specify the origin of; 'The writer carefully sourced her report'.

(verb.) get (a product) from another country or business; 'She sourced a supply of carpet'; 'They are sourcing from smaller companies'.

校对:西尔玛

• Reason is wholly inactive, and can never be the source of so active a principle as conscience, or a sense of morals. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• This principle we derive from experience, and is the source of most of our philosophical reasonings. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• This was a class of plant which the inquirers desired to purchase outright and operate themselves, usually because of remoteness from any possible source of general supply of current. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• This leads us to consider the fifth source of authority, viz. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• Such colonies, therefore, have been a source of expense, and not of revenue, to their respective mother countries. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• She was jealous of him, but there was another and graver source of trouble in her passion for religious mysteries. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• And she did not speak, but only pressed her hands firmer down upon the source of darkness in him. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• The yield from both sources has considerably decreased. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• I began with such scanty sources of information as were at my own disposal. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Supplies were growing scarce in Richmond, and the sources from which to draw them were in our hands. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• The conservation of the forest means the conservation of our waterways, whether these be used for transportation or as sources of drinking water. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Of all the sources of evil surrounding the former, since her coming to Highbury, she was persuaded that she must herself have been the worst. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• Every tax must finally be paid from some one or other of those three different sources of revenue, or from all of them indifferently. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• But I was restlessly curious to look at her--so curious that I felt it to be one of the few sources of entertainment left to me. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.

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