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fountainhead

/foun-tn-hed/US // ˈfaʊn tnˌhɛd //UK // (ˈfaʊntɪnˌhɛd) //

泉源,源头,泉源头,泉眼

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a fountain or spring from which a stream flows; the head or source of a stream.
    • : a chief source of anything: a fountainhead of information.

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Examples

  • In 1949 his wife Lauren Bacall was slated to star alongside Gary Cooper in the adaptation of Rand's The Fountainhead.

  • To RJ Eskow of the Campaign for America's Future, his plan is " The Fountainhead meets Death Race 2000."

  • Pauline Kael nailed The Fountainhead, both the novel and the film made from it, as “wildly extravagant Kitsch.”

  • Like others, Barkan also says that hip-hop has cut into a traditional fountainhead of jazz audiences, African-Americans.

  • There are many excellent maps issued, but it is best to go to the fountainhead, to the publications of the Ordnance Survey.

  • French Gothic churches are a fountainhead, and should rank first.

  • Your Spanish royalty is the keystone, the fountainhead, of Spanish society, is it not?

  • But to find the supreme example of Bahai tagiya we have to go to the fountainhead.

  • I think we English folk might learn from them to put more joy into our work, that fountainhead of life and health.