fount

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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.
母親從來就是現(xiàn)在這個模樣，是一根力量的支柱，一個智慧的源泉，一位對任何問題都能夠解答的人。
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Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation.
想象力不僅是一種能促使人類預(yù)想不存在事物的獨特能力，從而成爲(wèi)所有發(fā)明和創(chuàng)新的源泉；
A lack of capital is also a major hindrance to the creation of the sort of small hi-tech startups that have been the fount of so much innovation in the United States, experts say.
專家認爲(wèi)，缺乏資金支持也是催生大批小型高科技企業(yè)的一個重大障礙，而這種小型高科技企業(yè)在美國卻恰恰是許多創(chuàng)新理唸、創(chuàng)新科技的源泉。

The fount of poetic inspiration is not to be found in an archive.
詩歌霛感的源泉竝不在檔案館裡。
耶魯公開課 - 1945年後的美國小說課程節(jié)選
That's not where you find the fount of the great poem.
在這些地方都找不到偉大詩歌的源泉。
耶魯公開課 - 1945年後的美國小說課程節(jié)選
I take this to be an undeniable fact, but this is easy for us to say - it's easy for us to say that it's Milton's memory which is the fount of so much of the poem's erudition.
我認爲(wèi)這是無可辯駁的，但我們可以輕易地說,我們可以說那是彌爾頓的記憶,作爲(wèi)了這部詩篇如此廣博知識的源泉。
耶魯公開課 - 彌爾頓課程節(jié)選

Who knows, they may even believe that a fount of profitability lies around the corner.
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If you describe a person or thing as the fount of something, you are saying that they are an important source or supply of it.
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