foundations是什么意思？

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最大的慈善基金会.
• 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。

英语六级真题

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.
出自-2013年12月听力原文
Laying the foundations of modem mathematics
出自-2013年12月听力原文
We first see ourselves through the eyes of others, so their messages form important foundations of our self-concepts.
出自-2010年6月听力原文

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
  Best friends are the foundation of my life... 好朋友是我生命的支柱。 The issue strikes at the very foundation of our community... 这个问题严重影响了我们社会的基本根基。
• 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
  ...the National Foundation for Educational Research. 全国教育研究基金会
• 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
  The allegations were without foundation... 这些指控没有根据。 Each complaint is analysed very closely, and if it has no foundation it is rejected. 每个投诉都经过仔细分析，如果发现没有依据就会予以驳回。
• 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.