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
• a specific size and style of type within a type family
  Synonym:fonttypefacefacecase

双语例句

• The party rains benefits upon us. The old man is a fount of wisdom.
  党给予我们无穷的恩惠。这位老人有无穷的智慧。
• The prime fount of business opportunity in almost all countries.
  几乎所有国家中企业成功机会的主要源头。
• At the crash, police said, the actor volunteered to submit a blood sample, and analysis of it fount he also had cocaine in his system.
  警方称，在车祸现场，这名男星主动提交了一份血样，检测后发现他的血液中含有可卡因。
• Stream from the fount of heavenly grace, Brook by the traveler's way.
  属天恩典涌如泉源，顺我道路长流。
• 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。
• 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。
• The fount of poetic inspiration is not to be found in an archive.
  诗歌灵感的源泉并不在档案馆里。
• 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；
• 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。
• 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。