Founding father
n. 开国者, 创立人
📖 牛津释义
founding father
1 person who establishes an institution, a popular movement, etc 创办机构、 发起民众运动等的人; 创始人
the founding fathers of modern linguistics 现代语言学的创始人.
2 Founding Father member of the body that in 1787 drew up the Constitution of the USA （1787年起草美国宪法的）制宪会议成员.
🧩 词语组成解析
founding
['faundiŋ]
n. [机] 铸造，熔铸;
v. 建造( found的现在分词);熔化;建立…的基础，以…为基础;
father
['fɑðɚ]
n. 父亲;祖先;（尤指天主教和东正教的）神父;天父;
vt. 成为父亲;创立（新思想）;创造;发明（新方法）;
🗣️ 情景例句
Excuse me, are you Mr. Peter from England?
对不起，请问你是英国的皮特先生吗？
I cannot afford two days off a week.
我忙得无法一星期抽出两天休假。
The only way that they can preserve their history is to recount it as sagas -- legends handed down from one generation of another.These legends are useful because they can tell us something about migrations of people who lived long ago, but none could wri
他们保存历史的唯一办法是将历史当作传说讲述，由讲述人一代接一代地将史实描述为传奇故事口传下来。