| 单词 | found |
| 释义 | found I. past of find II. < they're paid $175 a month and found — New Yorker > III. transitive verb 1. < founded palaces and planted bowers — Matthew Prior > 2. < the winds blew and beat upon that house but it did not fall because it had been founded on the rock — Mt 7:25 (Revised Standard Version) > 3. < this school was founded by a bequest of … $1,250,000 — C.W.Dabney > < he had founded prizes and scholarships and endowed hospital beds and charities — Osbert Lancaster > 4. a. < the single vital principle on which the true republic must found itself … is the principle of goodwill — V.L.Parrington > < all his imaginative work is founded on personal reminiscences of actual incidents and people — R.W.Stallman > b. < is enough to found my notion of their having … the relation of brothers — John Locke > intransitive verb < all delineation … must either found on belief and provable fact or have no foundation at all — Thomas Carlyle > Synonyms: < a lottery by which $40,000 was raised to found the College of Medicine — American Guide Series: Maryland > < the Conservatory of Music, founded by two distinguished dancers from Latvia — Report: (Canadian) Royal Commission on National Development > < founding a race, a whole descent, a whole line … which had gone on unbroken since before the time of William the Conqueror — Louis Bromfield > < the baronet looked down on the generous future he thus founded — George Meredith > establish usually adds to found the idea of bringing into enduring existence < the power which in 1644 established itself as the Ch'ing dynasty in Peking — C.A.Fisher > < follows a route to California established by James Beckwourth — American Guide Series: Nevada > < to establish a business > institute stresses an origination, a taking of the first steps in establishing something, but applies more widely than found or establish, for it comprises things that do and things that do not have a long life, as, respectively, a method of teaching and a course of lectures < the office of prime minister was formally instituted in the Gold Coast — Americana Annual > < institute the first large-scale reforestation project in the U.S. — American Guide Series: North Carolina > < the act provided that no appeal could be instituted at a time later than twenty-eight days after the date upon which the magistrate made his decision or order > organize can imply founding but stresses the steps taken to establish also a proper functioning of something, as by the establishing of a separation and interrelationship of necessary operations or responsibilities < he determined to take upon his own shoulders the responsibility of organizing some amusements — Thomas Hardy > < a small class of 15 children was organized — American Guide Series: Minnesota > < he organized the Harmonia Society and presented Haydn's The Seasons — American Guide Series: New York > < the development of trade had been well begun before the town itself was organized — American Guide Series: Louisiana > Synonym: see in addition base. IV. Scotland V. 1. a. b. 2. a. b. VI. archaic |
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