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原本

yuán běn

HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word

原本 (yuán běn) means "originally; original". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 原本 means

1. originally
2. the original; original copy; original version

The characters in 原本

• 原yuánformer; original; primary
• 本běn(bound form) root; stem; (bound form) origin; source; (bound form) one's own; this

Example sentences

• 州长最近的丑闻玷污了她原本完美无瑕的政绩。
  The governor's recent scandal was a blight on her otherwise pristine track record.
• 我原本是不需要给花浇水的，我刚浇完就下雨了。
  Wǒ yuánběn shì bù xūyào gěi huā jiāoshuǐ de, wǒ gāng jiāo wán jiù xiàyǔ le.
  I need not have watered the flowers. Just after I finished it started raining.
• 周五上午，美国劳工统计局公布的数据显示，美国经济原本预计为正在快速扩张，但 4 月仅新增了 26.6 万个工作岗位，这令美国的经济学家和政策制定者感到震惊。
  Economists and policymakers in the U.S. were stunned Friday morning when the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the U.S. economy, thought to be expanding at a rapid pace, added only 266,000 jobs in April.

Words containing 原本

• 几何原本Jǐ hé Yuán běnEuclid's "Elements"

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