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
Well, we'll phone every hour,
好了， 我们每个小时都打电话
We can't fly our kites any more because the wind has stopped.
由于风静止，所以已经没法放风筝了。
Sir James Clark Ross had obtained a sounding of over 2,400 fathoms in 1839,
在1839年，詹姆斯·克拉克·罗斯爵士曾测得海水深度超过2，400英尺；