原本

originally, at first, original, former

ɥ ɛ n ³ ⁵ p ə n ² ¹ ⁴ ⁻ ² ¹ ⁽ ⁴ ⁾
adverb Uncommon #8,104
originally, at first
CH: 我原本想早点回家。
EN: I originally wanted to go home early.

你的口气原本一副要说啥鼓励的话对啊,我想是吧

Your tone made it sound like you were about to say something encouraging, right? I think so.

— 大病 (2017)

原本安全的地方都无法通过

Places that were previously safe are now all impassable.

— 潜行者 (1979)

那时你原本也是打算偷东西的吗?

Were you also planning to steal something at the time?

— 小偷家族 (2018)

原本这里是被要石封印住了你为什么来到这里?

This place was originally sealed by a keystone. Why did you come here?

— 铃芽之旅 (2022)

原本帮这个家开车的人对,尹司机

The person who originally drove for this family was Mr. Yin.

— 寄生虫 (2019)

我是说原本没带课本的站起来

I mean, those who didn’t bring their textbooks, stand up.

— 那些年,我们一起追的女孩 (2011)

你原本要说啥?

What were you going to say?

— 大病 (2017)

原本想着加我一个是是是

I originally thought you were going to add me in. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

— 水瓶座 (2016)

父亲原本不是我们三合屯的人

Father was not originally from our Sanhe Village.

— 我的父亲母亲 (1999)

这是黑仔的地盘但原本也不是他的

This is Hei Zai’s turf, but it wasn’t his to begin with.

— 上帝之城 (2002)

这原本属于我祖母的,她在去年死掉了。

This originally belonged to my grandmother, who died last year.

— 死亡论文 (1996)

原本我要和彼得演一部莎士比亚剧但那至少要三个小时

Originally, Peter and I were going to perform a Shakespeare play, but it would have taken at least three hours.

— 绝美之城 (2013)

请问钱包里原本有多少钱?

How much money was originally in the wallet?

— 无人知晓 (2004)

那地方从没建完,可原本会很宏伟。

That place was never finished, but it would have been magnificent.

原本打工的人,突然跑掉了对吧?

The person who was originally working part-time suddenly took off, right?

— 寄生虫 (2019)

adjective Rare #32,237
original, former Refers to the way something or someone was before a change.
CH: 我更喜欢房间原本的样子。
EN: I prefer the room the way it was originally.

回到她原本的家人身边了

She returned to her family.

— 小偷家族 (2018)

可是收拾干净又有点伤心所以就保留原本的样子

But cleaning it up would be kind of sad, so I left it as it originally was.

— 记忆中的玛妮 (2014)

总算回到原本的夏天了呢

Finally, summer is back to the way it used to be.

— 天气之子 (2019)