originally是什么意思？

originally

英[əˈrɪdʒənəli] 美[əˈrɪdʒənəli]

• adv. 起初，原来，独创地，独出心裁地，自来，本；

例句

• 75 per cent of the amount originally borrowed is still outstanding. 最初的借款仍有75% 未偿还。
• We started out originally as a taxi firm. 我们起初开业时是一家出租车公司。
• After much discussion they settled on the plan originally proposed. 他们讨论了很久,然后确定了原来提出的那个计划。
• It was originally published in the pages of a magazine. 这篇文章原先发表在一本杂志上。
• Each Reader's Digest condensed book is an abbreviation of an originally longer work. 《读者文摘》都是较长原著的缩写本。
• The pictograph a mountain was originally three peaks together. “山”的象形字原来是三座山峰堆在一起的.
• The guards were originally hired to watch over the houses as they were being built. 最初雇门卫是为了看护正在修建的房子。
• The term profession originally denoted a limited number of vocations. 专业这个术语起初表示数量有限的职业.
• Many words that were originally hyphenated are now written without hyphens. 很多单词一开始是有连字符的,但是现在都不用连字符了.
• Originally from Kenya, Caleb Fundi has lived in Berlin for the last 10 years. 原本来自肯尼亚的方迪已经在柏林生活了10年.

英语六级真题

Named after a river that passes through the Congo, the Ebola virus originally manifested itself in the interior of Africa in 1976.
出自-2013年6月听力原文
There were originally six of them.
出自-2013年12月听力原文

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• ADV
  起初；原来
  When you say what happened or was the case originally, you are saying what happened or was the case when something began or came into existence, often to contrast it with what happened later.
  例句
  The plane has been kept in service far longer than originally intended... 这架飞机已经超期服役很长时间了。 France originally refused to sign the treaty... 最初法国拒绝签署该条约。

英汉词典释义

• adv.
  起初;原来
  After much discussion they settled on the plan originally proposed. 他们讨论了很久,然后确定了原来提出的那个计划。 We started out originally as a taxi firm. 我们起初开业时是一家出租车公司。 75 per cent of the amount originally borrowed is still outstanding. 最初的借款仍有75% 未偿还。

英英词典释义

• Adverb
  1. in an original manner
  2. with reference to the origin or beginning
  3. before now;
  "why didn't you tell me in the first place?"