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fount

英 [faʊnt]

美 [faʊnt]

n.  (重要事物的)来源,根源,源泉

复数:founts 

TEM8

BNC.22123 / COCA.29001

牛津词典

    noun

    • (重要事物的)来源,根源,源泉
      the place where sth important comes from
      1. She treats him as if he were the fount of all knowledge .
        她把他当成无所不晓。

    柯林斯词典

    • N-COUNT 来源;源泉;根源
      If you describe a person or thing asthefount ofsomething, you are saying that they are an important source or supply of it.
      1. To the young boy his father was the fount of all knowledge.
        对于这个小男孩儿来说,他的父亲就是所有知识的源泉。

    英英释义

    noun

    • a plumbing fixture that provides a flow of water
        Synonym:fountain
      1. a specific size and style of type within a type family
          Synonym:fonttypefacefacecase

        双语例句

        • Generic fount: A fount used in screen display or a proof printer to represent an entire category of higher-quality output founts.
          总字体:萤幕显示或稿样印字机用的字体,它代替输出用的高品质字体。
        • It's said that memory is the fount of worry.
          有人说一个有烦恼是因为记性太好。
        • Dr Barrett is renowned as the fount of knowledge on the disease.
          巴雷特医生以他对疾病的渊博知识而广为人知。
        • Mother had always been just as she was, a pillar of strength, a fount of wisdom, the one person who knew the answers to everything.
          母亲从来就是现在这个模样,是一根力量的支柱,一个智慧的源泉,一位对任何问题都能够解答的人。
        • That old man is a fount of wisdom.
          那老人有无穷的智慧。
        • That's not where you find the fount of the great poem.
          在这些地方都找不到伟大诗歌的源泉。
        • It is the fount of our artistic and altruistic ideals.
          它是我们的审美趣味和利他理想的源泉。
        • You and I have floated here on the stream that brings from the fount.
          你与我漂浮在河流之上,正因为我们都来自相同的源泉。
        • Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation.
          想象力不仅是独特的人类能力,借助对尚不存在事物的设想,构筑着所有发明和创新的源泉;
        • A sacred fount of untold power, it saturated every fiber of our being.
          一眼浸润我们每个人血管的无尽的力量之泉。