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.- 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。
- He was one of the founders of the university's medical faculty.
- 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.- 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。
- The talks have foundered, largely because of the reluctance of some members of the government to do a deal with criminals.
- VERB (船只)沉没
If a shipfounders, it fills with water and sinks.- Three ships foundered in heavy seas.
三艘船在波涛汹涌的海面上沉没了。
- Three ships foundered in heavy seas.
双语例句
- The founders of the USA left important precedents.
美国的建立者留下了很多重要的先例（复习：precedent，取决于pre=before）。 - 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。 - In some listings, I have questioned the motives of the founders in taking the company public.
我怀疑过一些公司的创始人将公司上市变成公众公司的动机。 - They override agreements entered into voluntarily by founders and investors.
它们推翻了创始人和投资者自愿达成的协议。 - The genius of our founders is that they designed a system of government that can be changed.
我们奠基者们的天才之处在于他们设计了可变革的政体。 - 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。 - There is indeed a theory that jerks or assholes make the most successful founders/ CEOs.
确实有一种理论认为，令人讨厌的人或混蛋可以成为最成功的创始人和CEO。 - The founders of these companies are internationally famous and frequently grace the covers of time and Forbes magazines.
这些公司的创立者全球闻名，频繁出现在《时代》和《福布斯》杂志的封面上。 - The Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin have also expressed personal interest in space exploration.
谷歌创始人拉里·佩奇（Larrypage）和谢尔盖·布林（SergeyBrin）也曾表达过对于太空探索的个人兴趣。 - 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。