founders

英 [ˈfaʊndəz]

美 [ˈfaʊndərz]

n.  (组织、机构等的)创建者，创办者，发起人
v.  失败; 破产; 沉没
founder的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 创办人;创立者;奠基者
  Thefounderof an institution, organization, or building is the person who got it started or caused it to be built, often by providing the necessary money.
  1. He was one of the founders of the university's medical faculty.
     他是该大学医学院的创建人之一。
• VERB 失败;崩溃;垮掉
  If something such as a plan or projectfounders, it fails because of a particular point, difficulty, or problem.
  1. The talks have foundered, largely because of the reluctance of some members of the government to do a deal with criminals.
     对话已经破裂了，原因主要是因为一些政府成员不愿意和犯罪分子达成协议。
• VERB (船只)沉没
  If a shipfounders, it fills with water and sinks.
  1. Three ships foundered in heavy seas.
     三艘船在波涛汹涌的海面上沉没了。

双语例句

• We are not a Christian nation, and our founders specifically forbid us to become so.
  我们不是一个基督教国家，和我们的创始人特别是不让我们成为如此。
• We will come through because our founders bequeathed us a political system of genius.
  我们会走出来的，因为我们的缔造者赋予了我们一个天才的政治体制。
• We funded them because we liked the founders so much.
  我们投资它，只是因为我们太喜欢他的创始人了。
• They were substantially the founders of civilization.
  他们实质上是文明的建立者。
• We know about immigrant founders at large technology companies, such as Intel, Google and eBay.
  我们都知道，一些大型科技企业的创始人都是移民，如英特尔、谷歌和电子港湾。
• Google founders see themselves as pioneers in stripping accountability from the capital markets system.
  谷歌的几位创始人把自己当成了超脱于资本市场体系责任之外的先行者。
• But when they divvied up the power in their new creation, its founders practised some low numerical arts.
  但是当他们在新的创造物中分配权利时，他的创始人们犯了一些低级的数字方面的错误。
• Professor Yang Chengzong is one of the founders of radiochemistry in China.
  杨承宗教授是我国放射化学的奠基人。
• Most founders aren't willing to do that, and so that gave us more confidence in him.
  大部分创始人都不愿意这样做，所以这让我们对他更有信心了。
• I regularly bring this up with founders as I want them to be protected.
  我经常会提出这个条款，因为我希望创始人得到保护。