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mother lode

/muhth-er-lohd/US // ˈmʌð ərˌloʊd //

母矿,母矿区,母矿场,母矿井

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Mining. a rich or important lode.
    • : a major or profitable source or supply: New York City is a mother lode of actors.

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Examples

  • Taraji manages to bring an equal measure of truth to the mother in her character.

  • Three on-the-record stories from a family: a mother and her daughters who came from Phoenix.

  • But my sources, my young women and their mother, heroically held firm.

  • I thought about the mother, her fear of the dark, of the harm she feared might come to her daughters.

  • Meanwhile two kids were taken from their mother when she flew back to the UK from Turkey.

  • There was no doubt thought of his own loss in this question: yet there was, one may hope, a germ of solicitude for the mother too.

  • "The Smoker," and "Mother and Daughter," a triptych, are two of her principal pictures.

  • Now first we shall want our pupil to understand, speak, read and write the mother tongue well.

  • The mother's lips could not finish the charge she was about to put upon her innocent child.

  • The Authorised Version has: “And as a mother shall she meet him, and receive him as a wife married of a virgin.”