founding father

英 [ˌfaʊndɪŋ ˈfɑːðə(r)]

美 [ˌfaʊndɪŋ ˈfɑːðər]

n.  (运动、机构或思想的)创建人，发起人，元勋; (1787年参加制订美国宪法的)制宪元勋

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牛津词典

noun

• （运动、机构或思想的）创建人，发起人，元勋
  a person who starts or develops a new movement, institution or idea
• （1787年参加制订美国宪法的）制宪元勋
  a member of the group of people who wrote the Constitution of the US in 1787

柯林斯词典

• 开创者;提出者;创立人
  Thefounding fatherof an institution, organization, or idea is the person who sets it up or who first develops it.
• 开国者，制宪元勋(美国宪法的起草者)
  TheFounding Fathersof the United States were the members of the American Constitutional Convention of 1787.

英英释义

noun

• a person who founds or establishes some institution
  1. George Washington is the father of his country
  Synonym:founderbeginnerfather

双语例句

• In1784, our founding father, George Washington, commissioned the Empress of China, a ship that set sail for these shores so that it could pursue trade with the Qing Dynasty.
  1784年我们的开国领袖乔治华盛顿就指派中国皇后号希望中国与清朝进行贸易。
• Founding father George Washington finished second in the new survey, followed by Franklin D.Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, and Harry Truman, in that order.
  国父乔治。华盛顿在排名中名列第二，紧接着按序排列的是富兰克林D。罗斯福，西奥多。罗斯福，杜鲁门，他们分别名列第三、四和五名。
• Tules Verne: founding father of science fiction
  科幻小说之父&儒勒·凡尔纳
• King Vittorio Emanuele II, who died in 1878, played an essential part in founding modern Italy, and his memorial at the Pantheon in Rome is dedicated to the Father of the Homeland.
  逝世于1878年的维托里奥·埃马努埃莱二世对现代意大利的建立起到了关键作用，万神殿里的埃马努埃莱二世纪念馆将他称作祖国之父。
• The visitors from all parts of the country came to see the bronze statue of He Long and his tomb to cherish our founding father& He Long.
  来自各地的游客纷纷来到贺龙铜像和元帅之墓前瞻仰祭拜，缅怀共和国开国元勋贺龙同志。
• Students now study Mao-still officially revered as the founding father of modern China but no longer regularly promoted as an influence on policy-only in junior high.
  在初中，教材仍然把毛尊为现代中国的开国之父，但已经不对政策产生影响。
• If economics has a founding father, it is smith.
  如果说经济学有一位开山鼻祖的话，那就是斯密。
• But the founding fathers of the United States share an intellectual bond with the founding father of economics.
  但是美国之父和经济之父分享了他们的智慧结晶。
• Chen Heqing was the outstanding representative of kindergarten curriculum reform in China in 1920s and 1930s. He was also the founding father of curriculum theory and practice of preschool education in China.
  陈鹤琴先生是我国本世纪二三十年代幼稚园课程改革的杰出代表、中国学前教育课程理论与实践的奠基人。
• As the "founding father" of American drama, Eugene Gladstone O'Neill has bestowed upon the American theatre a fresh impetus and an entirely new integrity.
  作为美国戏剧之父的尤金·奥尼尔，以其特有的开拓精神，为美国乃至世界戏剧注入了新的活力。