foundation

foundation

英[faʊnˈdeɪʃn]美[faʊnˈdeɪʃn]

n.基础，创办，地基，基金会，粉底；

复数：foundations;

例句

Our economy continues to grow, our financial foundation remains solid, our society remains pluralistic, and our politicians continue to debate openly on all the topical issues.香港的经济继续蓬勃增长，财*基础依然稳固，社会维持多元化。

They neglected to lay a good foundation.他们没有注意打下了一个良好的基础。

This old house has a very solid foundation.这所旧房子有非常结实的地基。

The students in middle schools should build up a solid foundation in English.中学生学习英语时应打下牢固的基础。

At a key moment in his life, he made a judicious investment that was the foundation.在他一生的关键时刻, 他做出了明智的投资, 这便成了他以后富裕的基础。

The Foundation gives money to help artists.那家基金会捐款帮助艺术家。

The foundation of democracy is the will of the people to preserve liberty.民主的基础在于人民维护自由的意志。

The foundation of the university took place 600 years ago.这所大学是600年前创办的。

If they throw stones at you, don’t throw back, use them to build your own foundation instead.如果别人朝你扔石头，就不要扔回去了，留着作你建高楼的基石。出自：英语名言

Humility is the foundation of all virtue.谦逊是一切美德的基础。出自：英语谚语

英语六级真题

About 250 students so far have gone through the program, which receives funding from the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation.

Recently, we examined more than 400 essays on the laws of life that teens from two communities had written as part of an educational program initiated by the John Templeton Foundation in Radnor, Pa.

Higher education has been able to duck this issue for years, particularly the more selective schools, by saying the responsibility is on the individual student," says Pennington of the Gates Foundation.

His solid foundation in math theory.

Humanistic disciplines are seriously underfunded, not just by the government and the foundations but by academic institutions themselves.

They could get financial support from various foundations for humanistic studies

Later working together in London, they laid the foundations of modern physics by showing that normal laws of cause and effect do not apply at the level of subatomic particles.

Laying the foundations of modem mathematics

We first see ourselves through the eyes of others, so their messages form important foundations of our self-concepts.

"A comparison point is in the 1990s battles over encryption," said Kurt Opsahl, general counsel of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a privacy watchdog group.

Because if we aren't, we won't be providing much value in future ecosystems, and that may put in question the foundation for our existence.

Recently, we examined more than 400 essays on the "laws of life" that teens from two communities had written as part of an educational program initiated by the John Templeton Foundation in Radnor, Pennsylvania.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

N-COUNT

基础;根基

The foundation of something such as a belief or way of life is the things on which it is based.

例句

N-PLURAL

地基;房基

The foundations of a building or other structure are the layer of bricks or concrete below the ground that it is built on.

N-COUNT

基金会

A foundation is an organization which provides money for a special purpose such as research or charity.

例句

N-UNCOUNT

依据;根据

If a story, idea, or argument has no foundation, there are no facts to prove that it is true.

例句

N-MASS

粉底霜

Foundation is a skin-coloured cream that you put on your face before putting on the rest of your make-up.

英汉词典释义

n.

建立, 设立, 创办，创建

基础, 基本原理, 根据

地基，房基

基金(会)

粉底霜

英英词典释义

Noun

1. the basis on which something is grounded;

2. an institution supported by an endowment

3. the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained;

4. lowest support of a structure;

5. education or instruction in the fundamentals of a field of knowledge;

6. a woman's undergarment worn to give shape to the contours of the body

7. the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new;

行业词典

体育： 第九*击倒全柱的好球；基础球；

医学： 基础：结构或基础；

地质学： 地基；

水利： 地基；承受结构物荷载的岩体、土体。；

法律： 地基；

电力： 塔基；

航天： 基础；

铁道： 地基；"又称 :地基(foundation soil,subgrade) "；