Fountain

(noun.) a plumbing fixture that provides a flow of water.

(noun.) an artificially produced flow of water.

(noun.) a structure from which an artificially produced jet of water arises.

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• Selden followed her, and still without speaking they seated themselves on a bench beside the fountain. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• One lived in Fountain Court, and the other two lived in the Lane, and he had seen them all go home. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• It is called a siphon recorder because the record is made by a little glass siphon down which a flow of ink is maintained like a fountain pen. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Night was far advanced, when I came to the half-way resting-place, and seated myself beside the fountain. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• She seems to have what I never saw in any woman before--a fountain of friendship towards men--a man can make a friend of her. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• A stream cannot rise above its fountain. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• No Sargon, no Thothmes, no Nebuchadnezzar, no Cyrus nor Alexander nor Chandragupta, was its fountain head. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• I remembered the ancient fables, in which human beings are described as dissolving away through weeping into ever-gushing fountains. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• He stood there in his strange, whole body, that had its marvellous fountains, like the bodies of the sons of God who were in the beginning. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• I had nothing to do but listen to the pattering of the fountains and take medicine and throw it up again. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Of what consequence was it to our four hearts, that they alone were the fountains of life in the wide world? 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• The bands played, and so did the fountains; the moon and the gas lamps lit up the scene, and altogether it was a brilliant and an animated picture. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• It sometimes appears as a jet of fire from 20 to 30 feet high; and, in the neighbourhood of Thsee-Lieon-Teing, the salt works were formerly heated and lighted by means of these fountains of fire. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• The fountains, gardens, walks, avenues, and groves, were all disposed with exact judgment and taste. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.

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