foundation

n. 基础；地基；基金会；根据；创立

n.

地基；基础；基金（会）；粉底

变形

复数：foundations

英英释义

foundation[ faun'deiʃən ]

n.

the basis on which something is grounded

"there is little foundation for his objections"

an institution supported by an endowment

the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained

同义词：basisbasefundamentgroundworkcornerstone

lowest support of a structure

同义词：basefundamentfootgroundworksubstructureunderstructure

education or instruction in the fundamentals of a field of knowledge

"he lacks the foundation necessary for advanced study"

同义词：grounding

a woman's undergarment worn to give shape to the contours of the body

同义词：foundation garment

the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new

"the foundation of a new scientific society"

同义词：initiationfoundinginstitutionoriginationcreationinnovationintroductioninstauration

词组短语

on the foundation[英国英语]领取基金会提供奖学金(或津贴)的；属于由基金维持的机构的

theoretical foundation理论基础

solid foundation基础雄厚；实体基础

foundation pit基坑

pile foundation打桩基础

deep foundation深基础；深层地基

lay a foundation奠定基础；奠基；打下基础

foundation treatment地基处理，基础处理

economic foundation经济基础

dam foundation坝基

foundation stone基石；根源

foundation soil地基；地基土

foundation design基础设计；基础工程

elastic foundation弹性地基；弹力胸衣

research foundation研究基金会

firm foundation坚实的基础

national science foundation美国国家科学基金会

foundation engineering基础工程；地基工程

social foundation社会基础

foundation work基础工作；基础工程

同近义词辨析

这组词都有“基础”的意思，其区别是：

basis主要用作抽象或引申意义。

ground含义与basis和foundation接近。一般指某种决定、论点或关系的基础，也可指某种原因的基础。

base侧重指构成或支撑某一具体物体的基础，也可指军事基地或用作比喻意义。

foundation用于具体意义时，侧重指坚固结实的建筑物的基础或地基；用作比喻意义时，与basis基本相同。

这组词都有“基础”的意思，其区别是：

groundn.地面，土地，也指地域，水底，海底。

basen.指具体的有形的基础，也可指物体的底部、基部；基地，总部。

They use their apartment in New York as a home base from which they travel frequently.他们把纽约的公寓作为他们频繁出行的大本营。

foundationn.本义指建筑物的地基，含有坚实的基础的意思；基金会。

The foundation for our house is made of cement.我们房子的地基是水泥打下的。

双语例句

用作名词(n.)

How long will it take to finish digging the foundations?
挖地基大概需要多长时间完成呢？

He laid the foundation of his success by study and hard work.
他通过学习和努力工作为成功打下了基础。

All these have laid a solid political foundation for consolidated national unity.
所有这些为巩固国家统一奠定了坚实的政治基础。

His view is by no means without foundation.
他这种看法决不是凭空产生的。

These conclusions must have some solid foundation in reality.
这些结论一定有某些牢固的现实根据。

The foundation of this university took place over 100 years ago.
这所大学于一百多年前创建。

权威例句

foundation (n.)

late 14c., "action of founding," from Old French fondacion "foundation" (14c.) or directly from Late Latin fundationem (nominative fundatio) "a founding," noun of action from past participle stem of Latin fundare "to lay a bottom or foundation" (see found (v.1)). The Latin word is glossed in Old English by staþol. Specialized sense of "establishment of an institution with an endowment to pay for it" is from late 14c.; meaning "that which is founded" (a college, hospital, etc.) is from 1510s; meaning "funds endowed for benevolent or charitable purposes" is from early 15c. Sense of "solid base of a structure" is from early 15c.

1. The ground was excavated for a foundation.

地面被挖空作为地基。

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2. Find on what foundation the proposition bottoms.

找出这个命题建立在什么基础上。

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3. He laid the foundation of the science of bacteriology.

他为细菌学科学奠定了基础。

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4. We should take all of these steps to build a strong foundation for our children.

我们应该采取这一切措施来为我们的孩子建立一个坚实的基础。

5. We make business on the foundation of equality.

我们是在平等的基础上进行贸易。

6. I have my foundation, I have my music school.

我有我的基金会，还有音乐学校。

7. But we have only laid the foundation.

但是这只是奠定了基础。

8. So, it is possible, but perhaps only for teams and companies built from the ground up where this is at the core, at the foundation.

所以是有可能的，但可能只有将这些视为核心和基础，并在其之上构建、成长的团队和公司才能实现。

9. Building from this firm foundation we can now attempt to answer the question by asking, what do we know about the nature of reality?

从这个坚实的基础出发我们现在能试图来回答这个问题。我们要问，我们对真实的本质了解多少？

10. Let us now fuse together now as one people who want to do something for the people of Kenya. Let us strengthen the foundation of multiparty democracy in our country.

现在让我们融汇在一起，团结起来，就像希望为肯尼亚人民作一些事情的同一个人，让我们一起巩固我国多党民主制的基础。

11. But behind every achievement exists the motivation which is at the foundation of it and which in turn is strengthened and nourished by the accomplishment of the undertaking.

但是在每项成就背后都有一个作为其基础的推动力，这种推动力反过来又被所从事的事业中取得的成功所强化和滋养。

12. How much improvement you make to your foundation is dependent on you and only you.

你的基础有多大程度的改进取决于你自己，是的只取决于你自己。

13. What is the foundation of their good relationships?

他们良好关系的基础是什么呢？

14. And with this visit we can lay the foundation for the next 30 years.

胡主席的此次访问能够让我们为未来30年奠定基础。

15. In the half-century since, that alliance has endured as a foundation for our security and prosperity.

在此后半个世纪中，这一同盟作为两国安全与繁荣的基础持续至今。

16. That is why I decided to give the money to this foundation.

这就是我决定把这笔钱用在这个基金会的原因。

17. Your business is the same way in that it’s only as strong as the foundation you build it on.

你的企业在这方面也一样，你只有把它建立在尽可能牢固的基础上才行。

18. You never know if one of your children might actually grow up to be a zoologist because of the foundation you laid during their childhood!

你不知道就是因为你在童年时期为他们打下的基础，在你的孩子中间可能真的会成为一个生物学家。

19. Yet they find themselves stumbling on simple tasks, all because they do not have the foundation necessary to fully understand or utilize the framework.

然而，他们发现在完成简单任务时就磕磕绊绊，这都是因为没有必要的基础知识来完全理解和使用框架。

20. Core belief – because without this foundation there is nothing to build your balance upon.

核心信念—如果没有这个基础你就无处建立你的平衡。

21. That code becomes the foundation and framework for our new application.

那个代码就成为了我们新的应用程序的基础和框架。

22. I want it to be part of the foundation of the books, which are actually about all sorts of other things as well - history, class, culture.

我只想让它成为构成此书基础的一部分而已，实际上这本书还涉及到各种主题，例如历史、阶级、文化等等。

23. Together, they have built the foundation for our new existence, our digital life.

它们共同构成了我们现今存在方式，即数字生活的基础。

24. Thinking symbolically is the foundation of everything we do — we live in a symbolic world.

象征性思维是我们做一切的基础，我们生活在一个符号的世界里。

25. This recognition is the foundation of Web evolution research.

这一认识是万维网进化研究的基础。

26. This recognition is the foundation of Web evolution research.

这一认识是万维网进化研究的基础。