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

• Daniel Defoe ( 1660-1731) is the founding father of British realistic novel and is called "Father of Novel in Britain and Europe".
  丹尼尔·笛福（DanielDefoe，1660-1731）是英国现实主义小说的奠基人，被誉为英国和欧洲小说之父。
• 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。
• As last week's obituaries have already recorded, Derrida was the founding father of deconstruction.
  正如上周的各条讣告所记载的，德里达是解构主义之父。
• Mayo, the founding father of Behaviourism in the Occidental management science, put forward epoch-making thoughts on Social Man, Informal Group and new leadership after through experiments at Hawthorne plant for 8 years.
  梅奥是西方管理学中行为科学理论的创始人，他通过长达8年之久的霍桑试验，提出了划时代的管理思想：职工是社会人；企业中存在着非正式组织；
• That is mostly thanks to Habib Bourguiba, the founding father of the modern Tunisian state, who outlawed polygamy, granted women equal divorce rights and legalised abortion.
  他废除了一夫多妻制，批准男女享有平等的离婚权益，并将堕胎视为合法。
• He introduced Boolean algebra in switching theory, is the founding father of communication science, and performed several experiments related to artificial intelligence.
  申农是许多科学领域的先驱：他在开关理论中引入了布尔代数，他是通讯理论之父，他还做过一些人工智能方面的实验。
• Modern China's founding father, Sun Yat-sen, proposed a dam in 1919.
  现代中国的奠基人孙中山早在1919年就曾设想过建造长江大坝。
• 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。
• Tules Verne: founding father of science fiction
  科幻小说之父&儒勒·凡尔纳
• 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。