fountain是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 泉水, 喷泉, 源泉，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The fountain was a little removed; for the street opened, where it was, into a space some ten or twelve yards square.
-- The water of the fountain ran, the swift river ran, the day ran into evening, so much life in the city ran into death according to rule, time and tide waited for no man, the rats were sleeping close together in their dark holes again, the Fancy Ball was lighted up at supper, all things ran their course.
-- The sweet scents of the summer night rose all around him, and rose, as the rain falls, impartially, on the dusty, ragged, and toil-worn group at the fountain not far away; to whom the mender of roads, with the aid of the blue cap without which he was nothing, still enlarged upon his man like a spectre, as long as they could bear it.
-- That fountain suggested the Par-is fountain, the little bundle lying on the step, the women bending over it, and the tall man with his arms up, crying, 'Dead!'
-- The fountain in the village flowed unseen and unheard, 179and the fountain at the chateau dropped unseen and un-heard both melting away, like the minutes that were falling from the spring of Time through three dark hours.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- By a connection not evident to him he remembered that the Sunday before, in the slummy chapel where he preached during his medical course, he had exalted the sacrifice of the martyrs and they had sung of the blood of the lamb, the fountain filled with blood drawn from Emmanuel's veins, but this meditation he lost, and he lumbered toward Digamma Pi in a fog of pondering pity.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I came here, you pure fountain of love,' she said, 'to see- as I beganby telling you- what such a thing as you was like.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This piece of water (with an island in the middle which might have been the salad for supper) was of a circular form, and he had constructed a fountain in it, which, when you set a little mill going and took a cork out of a pipe, played to that powerful extent that it made the back of your hand quite wet.
-- At last, when we got to his place of business and he pulled out his key from his coat-collar, he looked as unconscious of his Walworth property as if the Castle and the drawbridge and the arbor and the lake and the fountain and the Aged, had all been blown into space together by the last discharge of the Stinger.
-- One lived in Fountain Court, and the other two lived in the Lane, and he had seen them all go home.
-- I walked past the fountain twice or thrice before I descended the steps that were between me and my rooms, but I was quite alone.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And mind the words that thou and I said By the fountain cool, in the greenwood shade.'
-- And mind the words that thou and I said By the fountain cool, in the greenwood shade.'
-- And mind the words that thou and I said By the fountain cool, in the greenwood shade.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was also to exhibit 'his astounding feat of throwing seventy-five hundred-weight in rapid succession backhanded over his head, thus forming a fountain of solid iron in mid-air, a feat never before attempted in this or any other country, and which having elicited such rapturous plaudits from enthusiastic throngs it cannot be withdrawn.'
-- Her remembrances of home and childhood were remembrances of the drying up of every spring and fountain in her young heart as it gushed out.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As a mere flask of the golden water in the tale became a full fountain when it was poured out, so Mr Meagles seemed to feel that this small spice of Barnacle imparted to his table the flavour of the whole family-tree.
-- Little Dorrit, though of the unheroic modern stock and mere English, did much more, in comforting her father's wasted heart upon her innocent breast, and turning to it a fountain of love and fidelity that never ran dry or waned through all his years of famine.
-- However, the door jarred open on a dead sort of spring; and he closed it behind him as he entered a dull yard, soon brought to a close by another dead wall, where an attempt had been made to train some creeping shrubs, which were dead; and to make a little fountain in a grotto, which was dry; and to decorate that with a little statue, which was gone.
-- Hence, there was a gloomy view of the yard that was dull, and of the shrubs that were dead, and of the fountain that was dry, and of the pedestal of the statue that was gone.
-- He came down the dark winding stairs into the yard with an increased sense upon him of the gloom of the wall that was dead, and of the shrubs that were dead, and of the fountain that was dry, and of the statue that was gone.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Here Meg meant to have a fountain, shrubbery, and a profusion of lovely flowers, though just at present the fountain was represented by a weather-beaten urn, very like a dilapidated slopbowl, the shrubbery consisted of sev-eral young larches, undecided whether to live or die, and the profusion of flowers was merely hinted by regiments of sticks to show where seeds were planted.
-- Every shadowy nook, where seats invited one to stop and rest, was a mass of bloom, every cool grotto had its marble nymph smiling from a veil of flowers and every fountain reflected crimson, white, or pale pink roses, leaning down to smile at their own beauty.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So that here, in the real living experience of living men, the prodigies related in old times of the inland Strello mountain in Portugal (near whose top there was said to be a lake in which the wrecks of ships floated up to the surface); and that still more wonderful story of the Arethusa fountain near Syracuse (whose waters were believed to have come from the Holy Land by an underground passage); these fabulous narrations are almost fully equalled by the realities of the whalemen.
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