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

• 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。
• 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。
• The company founders include a husband-and-wife team, Tom Costello and Anna Patterson, as chief executive and president.
  Cuil公司创始人包括一对夫妻组合：汤姆•卡斯特罗（TomCostello）和安娜•帕特森（AnnaPatterson），分别担任首席执行官和总裁。
• 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。
• 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。
• The farmers are the founders of civilization and prosperity.
  农民是文明和繁荣的奠基者。
• 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）。
• 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。
• But a divorce really ends a company. A divorce between founders really ends a company.
  但是分裂真的会终止一个公司，一个，建立者之间的分裂会终结一个公司。
• 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。