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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I shall die gazing straight at the great Fountain of life and power; I do not want this life!
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We were ranged round about a fountain offering hecatombs to the gods upon their holy altars, and there was a fine plane-tree from beneath which there welled a stream of pure water.
-- The men, moreover, of Ormenius, and by the fountain of Hypereia, with those that held Asterius, and the white crests of Titanus, these were led by Eurypylus, the son of Euaemon, and with them there came forty ships.
-- As when a lion has fought some fierce wild-boar and worsted him the two fight furiously upon the mountains over some little fountain at which they would both drink, and the lion has beaten the boar till he can hardly breathe even so did Hector son of Priam take the life of the brave son of Meno-etius who had killed so many, striking him from close at hand, and vaunting over him the while.
-- As one who would wa-ter his garden leads a stream from some fountain over his plants, and all his ground-spade in hand he clears away the dams to free the channels, and the little stones run rolling round and round with the water as it goes merrily down the bank faster than the man can follow even so did the river keep catching up with Achilles albeit he was a fleet runner, for the gods are stronger than men.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Them careless imps, the Mohawks, with their Tusca-rora and Onondaga brethren, have been here slaking their thirst,' he muttered, 'and the vagabonds have thrown away the gourd!This is the way with benefits, when they are be-stowed on such disremembering hounds!Here has the Lord laid his hand, in the midst of the howling wilderness, for their good, and raised a fountain of water from the bowels of the 'arth, that might laugh at the richest shop of apoth-ecary's ware in all the colonies; and see!the knaves have trodden in the clay, and deformed the cleanliness of the place, as though they were brute beasts, instead of human men.'
-- A spring, which many long years before had induced the natives to select the place for their temporary fortification, was soon cleared of leaves, and a fountain of crystal gushed from the bed, diffusing its waters over the verdant hillock.
-- Still the clear fountain retained a portion of its charmed influence, but it reflected only the somber gloom that fell from the impending heavens.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had taken her at the roots of her darkness and shame like a demon, laughing over the fountain of mystic corruption which was one of the sources of her being, laughing, shrugging, accepting, accepting finally.
-- She felt an approaching release, a new fountain of life rising up in her.
-- But she could not weep, and the sight of her cold, pale, impassive face soon stopped the fountain of Ursula's tears.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But calm, snow-white, and unvarying; still directing its fountain of feathers to the sky; still beckoning us on from before, the solitary jet would at times be descried.
-- That for six thousand years and no one knows how many millions of ages before the great whales should have been spouting all over the sea, and sprinkling and mistifying the gardens of the deep, as with so many sprinkling or mistifying pots; and that for some centuries back, thousands of hunters should have been close by the fountain of the whale, watching these sprinklings and spoutings that all this should be, and yet, that down to this blessed minute (fifteen and a quarter minutes past one o'clock P.M. of this sixteenth day of December, A.D. 1851), it should still remain a problem, whether these spoutings are, after all, really water, or nothing but vapor this is surely a noteworthy thing.
-- You cannot go with your pitcher to this fountain and fill it, and bring it away.
-- The triumphant halloo of thirty buckskin lungs was heard, as much nearer to the ship than the place of the imaginary jet, less than a mile ahead Moby Dick bodily burst into view!For not by any calm and indolent spoutings; not by the peaceable gush of that mystic fountain in his head, did the White Whale now reveal his vicinity; but by the far more wondrous phenomenon of breaching.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A man of Hurstwood's age and temperament is not subject to the illusions and burning desires of youth, but neither has he the strength of hope which gushes as a fountain in the heart of youth.
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