英语单词 | fountain |
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英美音标 | 英 ['faʊntən] 美 ['faʊntn] |
中文释义 | n.喷泉;源泉;储水容器;泉水 v.使像喷泉一样流 |
英语例句 | (1) She dabbled her fingers in the fountain. (2) The parks of this city are famous for their ornate fountains. (3) Social life is the fountain of wisdom of writers. (4) The brain is the ultimate fountain of ideas. (5) OK. You go out and get a drink of water at the fountain. (6) The fountain babbled its familiar music. (7) The fountain is clear at its source . |
中文例句 | (1) 她用手指在喷泉中玩水。 (2) 这个城市的公园以其华丽的喷泉而著名。 (3) 社会生活是作家们智慧的源泉。 (4) 大脑是思想的根本源泉。 (5) 好。你出去在饮水机那儿喝点水吧。 (6) 泉水发出惯常的潺潺声。 (7) 泉水源头清。 |
vocabulary简明 | A fountain is a decorative structure that shoots streams of water into the air. You might see a big fountain in front of a museum, or install a small one in your back yard. |
vocabulary扩展 | You can use the noun fountain any time you talk about a shooting flow of water, whether it's a deliberate, artificial piece of architecture or an accidental fountain caused by the faucet in your kitchen sink breaking suddenly, sending a fountain of water into the air. The earliest, fifteenth century meaning of fountain was "spring of water that collects in a pool," from the Latin root word fons, "spring of water." |
柯林斯解释 | 1 [N-COUNT 可数名词]喷泉;喷水池 A fountain is an ornamental feature in a pool or lake which consists of a long narrow stream of water that is forced up into the air by a pump. 2 [N-COUNT 可数名词]喷射;喷涌 A fountain of a liquid is an amount of it which is sent up into the air and falls back. [usu N [LITERARY 文]
3 [N-COUNT 可数名词]源泉;根源;来源 If you describe a person or thing as a fountain of something, you mean they are an important source of it and supply a lot of it. [N [LITERARY 文]
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