No. 3,169 in Japanese
原作
Original work.
In a sentence
この映画は有名な小説を原作としています。
This movie is based on a famous novel.
In this sentence, '原作' refers to the original novel that the movie took inspiration from.
原作にはない場面が追加されていました。
There were scenes added that were not in the original work.
Here, '原作' denotes the original narrative material which is used for comparison with the adaptation.
彼は原作を忠実に翻訳しました。
He translated the original work faithfully.
In this context, '原作' is used to specify the original work being translated.
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