foundations

英[fɑʊn'deɪʃəns]美[fɑʊn'deɪʃəns]

n.地基，地基( foundation的名词复数 )，基础，基金（会），建立；

例句

The peace treaty rests on shaky foundations.这项和平条约建于不稳固的基础上。

The house is unsafe since the foundations were undermined by floods.这栋房子不安全, 因为地基被洪水损坏了。

The foundations have sunk.地基下陷了。

The foundations of the building settled.这房屋的地基下陷了。

The peace treaty will lay the foundations for a loose confederation of sovereign states.该和平条约将为主权国家形成松散的同盟关系奠定基础。

A bulldozer was employed for excavating the foundations of the building.推土机用来给楼房挖地基。

Later their heirs would establish the largest philanthropic foundations.后来他们的后裔创办了*大的慈善基金会.

Badgers had undermined the foundations of the church.獾在这座教堂的地基处打了洞.

Atheists cannot build their moral outlook on foundations upon which so many men conduct their lives.无神论者无法将其道德观构建在许多人藉以指导自己行为的基础之上.

The builders are now beginning to lay the foundations of the new school.建筑工人正开始给新校舍打地基。

英语四级真题

A 16th century castle in Scotland is close to collapsing after lumps of soil were washed away by floods, threatening its foundations.

The absorption helps them to establish strong foundations for recollection, says Patihis, and the fantasy proneness means that they revisit those memories again and again in the coming weeks and months.

Their massive wake creates waves at the bottom of the sea, weakening the foundations of the centuries-old buildings themselves.

英语六级真题

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.

This means that they have no foundations.

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.