from是什么意思

If something comes from a particular person or thing, or if you get something from them, they give it to you or they are the source of it.

Someone who comes from a particular place lives in that place or originally lived there. Something that comes from a particular place was made in that place.

A person from a particular organization works for that organization.

If someone or something moves or is moved from a place, they leave it or are removed, so that they are no longer there.

If you take one thing or person from another, you move that thing or person so that they are no longer with the other or attached to the other.

If you take something from an amount, you reduce the amount by that much.

From is used in expressions such as away from or absent from to say that someone or something is not present in a place where they are usually found.

If you return from a place or an activity, you return after being in that place or doing that activity.

If you are back from a place or activity, you have left it and have returned to your former place.

If you see or hear something from a particular place, you are in that place when you see it or hear it.

If something hangs or sticks out from an object, it is attached to it or held by it.

You can use from when giving distances. For example, if a place is fifty miles from another place, the distance between the two places is fifty miles.

If a road or railway line goes from one place to another, you can travel along it between the two places.

From is used, especially in the expression made from, to say what substance has been used to make something.

You can use from when you are talking about the beginning of a period of time.

You say from one thing to another when you are stating the range of things that are possible, or when saying that the range of things includes everything in a certain category.

If something changes from one thing to another, it stops being the first thing and becomes the second thing.

You use from after some verbs and nouns when mentioning the cause of something.

You use from when you are giving the reason for an opinion.

From is used after verbs with meanings such as 'protect', 'free', 'keep', and 'prevent' to introduce the action that does not happen, or that someone does not want to happen.