founder

英 ['faʊndə(r)] 美['faʊndɚ]

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复数: founders;第三人称单数: founders;过去式: foundered;过去分词: foundered;现在分词: foundering;

founder 创建者

来自found, 奠基，创建。

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.: 那所教师培训学院为该学院的创立者立了一块纪念牌匾。

2. He is the founder of International Sports Management Limited.: 他是国际体育管理有限公司的创始人。

3. Without the founder's drive and direction, the company gradually languished.: 没有了创始人的斗志与指引，公司逐渐走向没落。

4. He was the founder and guiding spirit of New York's Shakespeare Festival.: 他是纽约莎士比亚戏剧节的创始人及领导者。

5. Mr Meridor's father was a comrade-in-arms of the party's founder.: 梅里多先生的父亲是该党创始人的战友。