请输入您要查询的英文单词:

 

单词 fount
释义

fount1

/faʊnt /
noun
1A source of a desirable quality or commodity: our courier was a fount of knowledge...
  • Having proved myself the fount of all world knowledge, I returned Lisa to Brighton on Tuesday evening, in time for our 7 month anniversary on Wednesday, a landmark we celebrated with a visit to the drive-thru McDonalds.
  • Children should ‘find out’ for themselves, and teachers will be ‘liberated from their traditional role as the fount of all knowledge’.
  • The trouble was, in my opinion, that Barbara thought she was right on every subject, and the fount of great knowledge on subjects of which she knew little or nothing, such as the motor industry.
1.1 literary A spring or fountain.

Origin

Late 16th century: back-formation from fountain, on the pattern of the pair mountain, mount.

Rhymes

fount2

noun British
Variant spelling of font2.
随便看

 

英语词典包含243303条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2004-2022 Newdu.com All Rights Reserved
更新时间:2024/9/20 21:45:50