from
prep. 从, 来自, 根据
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释义与例句
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Used to indicate source or provenance.
从
自
由
由于
出于
按
对
Paul is from New Zealand.
I got a letter from my brother.
You can't get all your news from the Internet.
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2.
Originating at (a year, time, etc.)
This manuscript is from the 1980s.
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3.
Used to indicate a starting point or initial reference.
从
自
由
由于
出于
按
对
He had books piled from floor to ceiling.
He departed yesterday from Chicago.
This figure has been changed from a one to a seven.
Face away from the wall!
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4.
Used to indicate a starting point or initial reference.
Indicating a starting point in time.
The working day runs from 9 am to 5 pm.
Tickets are available from 17th July.
The store will be open from nine in the morning, but I’ll be at home from Wed. evening (on).
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5.
Used to indicate a starting point or initial reference.
Indicating a starting point on a range or scale.
Rate your pain from 1 to 10.
Start counting from 1.
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6.
Used to indicate a starting point or initial reference.
Indicating a starting point on an array or gamut of conceptual variations.
You can study anything from math to literature.
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7.
Used to indicate a starting point or initial reference.
With reference to the location or position of a speaker or other observer or vantage point.
It's hard to tell from here.
Try to see it from his point of view.
The bomb went off just 100 yards from where they were standing.
From the top of the lighthouse you can just see the mainland.
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8.
Used to indicate a starting point or initial reference.
Indicates a starting state of the predicament of the subject. Synonym of since being.
多元文化伦敦英语I’ve been doing this from pickney.
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9.
Indicating removal or separation.
After twenty minutes, remove the cake from the oven.
The general was ousted from power.
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10.
Indicating removal or separation.
Denoting a subtraction operation.
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Indicating exclusion.
She was barred from entering.
A parasol protects from the sun.
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12.
Indicating differentiation.
从
自
由
由于
出于
按
对
Your opinions differ from mine.
He knows right from wrong.
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13.
Produced with or out of (a substance or material).
It's made from pure gold.
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14.
Used to indicate causation; because of, as a result of.
Too many people die from breast cancer.
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词源
From Middle English from (“from”), from Old English from, fram (“forward, from”), from Proto-West Germanic *fram, from Proto-Germanic *fram (“forward, from, away”). Cognate with Old Saxon fram (“from”) and Old High German fram (“from”), Danish frem (“forth, forward”), Danish fra (“from”), Swedish fram (“forth, forward”), Swedish från (“from”), Norwegian Nynorsk fram (“forward”), Norwegian Nynorsk frå (“from”), Icelandic fram (“forward, on”), Icelandic frá (“from”), Albanian pre, prej. More at fro.
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