mother lode

同根派生

Her own experiences have provided her with a mother lode of material for her songs.
她自身的經歷爲她的歌曲提供了取之不盡的素材。
So the harvest hymn find, on a scrap of liturgical scroll, was a virtual mother lode.
因此發現了收獲贊美詩,在禮拜式的古卷小片上,是一個虛擬的母親鑛脈。
Its narrow-mindedness, complacency and conformism are the mother lode of material for sitcom writers and novelists.
他們目光短淺、自命不凡、因循守舊的形象，縂是爲喜劇作家和小說家們提供著無窮無盡的笑料。
If wind is ever to contribute terawatts to the global energy budget, engineers will have to invent affordable ways to mine the mother lode.
如果風力真要對全球能源貢獻兆瓦以上的電力，工程師必須要發明經濟實惠的方法來開採這份天然寶藏。
They are fellow prospectors pressing deeper into an abstracted world, content most of the time to pick up an occasional nugget but dreaming of the mother lode.
他們是一些像採鑛人的家夥，在這心不在焉的世界深深的挖掘，大多數情況下拾到一塊天然的金塊就很滿意但是卻一直夢想著找到母鑛的那一刻。