resource

• n. 资源，财力；办法；智谋

词态变化

中文词源

re-,向后，往回，source,资源。引申词义才智，谋略。

英文词源

resource

resource: see surge

resource (n.)

1610s, "means of supplying a want or deficiency," from French resourse "a source, spring," noun use of fem. past participle of Old French resourdre "to rally, raise again," from Latin resurgere "rise again" (see resurgent). Resources "a country's wealth" first recorded 1779.

resource (v.)

1975, from resource (n.). Related: Resourced; resourcing.

双语例句

1. A country's principal resource is its brainpower.

一个国家的首要资源是其人才资源。

来自柯林斯例句

2. Water is becoming an increasingly precious resource.

水正成为日益珍贵的资源。

来自柯林斯例句

3. All pollution is simply an unused resource.

所有的污染只不过是一种未被利用的资源.

来自《简明英汉词典》

4. He is full of resource in any emergency.

他富有随机应变的才能.

来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

5. He is lost without resource.

他彻底完蛋[失败]了.

来自《现代英汉综合大词典》