founder

英 ['fa?nd?(r)] 美['fa?nd?]

GRETOEFL中頻詞常用詞匯

復(fù)數(shù):?founders;第三人稱單數(shù):?founders;過去式:?foundered;過去分詞:?foundered;現(xiàn)在分詞:?foundering;

founder 創(chuàng)建者

來自found, 奠基，創(chuàng)建。

founder: founder: [13] Etymologically, founder means ‘sink to the bottom’. Its history can be traced back to Latin fundus ‘bottom’ (source also of English found ‘establish’, fund, and fundamental), which formed the basis of a Vulgar Latin verb *fundorāre. This passed into Old French fondrer, which meant ‘submerge’, but also, by extension, ‘fall in ruins, collapse’ – both of which groups of senses English took over in founder.
=> found, fund, fundamental
founder (v.): early 14c. "to send to the bottom" (transitive); late 14c., "to sink or fall" (intransitive), from Old French fondrer "collapse; submerge, sink, fall to the bottom" (Modern French fondrier), from fond "bottom" (12c.), from Latin fundus "bottom, foundation" (see fund (n.)). Not especially of ships in Middle English, where it typically meant "fall to the ground." Figurative use from 1580s. Related: Foundered; foundering.
founder (n.1): "one who establishes, one who sets up or institutes (something)," mid-14c., from Anglo-French fundur, Old French fondeor "founder, originator" (Modern French fondateur), from Latin fundator, agent noun from fundare "to lay a foundation" (see found (v.1)). Fem. form foundress is from early 15c.; also fundatrix (1540s).
founder (n.2): "one who casts metal," c. 1400, agent noun from found (v.2).

1. The teacher training college put up a plaque to the college's founder.: 那所教師培訓(xùn)學(xué)院為該學(xué)院的創(chuàng)立者立了一塊紀(jì)念牌匾。

2. He is the founder of International Sports Management Limited.: 他是國際體育管理有限公司的創(chuàng)始人。

3. Without the founder's drive and direction, the company gradually languished.: 沒有了創(chuàng)始人的斗志與指引，公司逐漸走向沒落。

4. He was the founder and guiding spirit of New York's Shakespeare Festival.: 他是紐約莎士比亞戲劇節(jié)的創(chuàng)始人及領(lǐng)導(dǎo)者。

5. Mr Meridor's father was a comrade-in-arms of the party's founder.: 梅里多先生的父親是該黨創(chuàng)始人的戰(zhàn)友。