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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.
母亲从来就是现在这个模样，是一根力量的支柱，一个智慧的源泉，一位对任何问题都能够解答的人。
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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.
想象力不仅是一种能促使人类预想不存在事物的独特能力，从而成为所有发明和创新的源泉；
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.
专家认为，缺乏资金支持也是催生大批小型高科技企业的一个重大障碍，而这种小型高科技企业在美国却恰恰是许多创新理念、创新科技的源泉。

The fount of poetic inspiration is not to be found in an archive.
诗歌灵感的源泉并不在档案馆里。
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That's not where you find the fount of the great poem.
在这些地方都找不到伟大诗歌的源泉。
耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选
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.
我认为这是无可辩驳的，但我们可以轻易地说,我们可以说那是弥尔顿的记忆,作为了这部诗篇如此广博知识的源泉。
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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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