简单释义：

---

n. 创办者

v. 失败；破产；沉没

网络 方正；创始人；创办人

变形：

复数：founders  现在分词：foundering  过去分词：foundered  

---

完整释义：

---

n.

1.创始人
2.奠基者,创立者,创办人
3.奠基者;铸工
4.创始者
5.缔造者
6.(马的)蹄叶炎,胸肌风湿
7.铸造工,翻砂工;铸件
8.地基下沉
9.建筑物倒塌
10.球打入泥地

v.

1.(马)患蹄叶炎
2.(马等)摔倒
3.下沉
4.崩溃,破灭,落空;不能得手
5.沉陷
6.使摔倒,弄跛(马脚);使倒塌,使垮掉
7.(土地等)陷落;掉进(泥淖等里)(房屋等)倒塌
8.破坏,损害
9.失败,垮掉
10.【航海】沉没

---

例句：

1. "I wish they had not done it, " said Whitney Tilson, founder and a managing partner of T2 Partners LLC, which owns Microsoft shares.
   T2PartnersLLC创始人兼董事总经理WhitneyTilson说道：“我多希望他们没这样做。”该公司是微软股东。

2. Last week, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone said the media mogul was engaged in a vain attempt to "put the genie back in the bottle" .
   上周，Twitter创办人之一BizStone称，这位传媒巨头是在反其道而行之，这种行为无异于把放出来的精灵重新放回神灯中一样毫无意义。

3. "New York is such a packed environment, rooftops have always been a natural refuge, " says founder Mark Elijah Rosenberg.
   “纽约是那么地挤，屋顶自然是一个好去处，”“屋顶电影节”创始人马克·以利亚·罗森博格说道。

4. NARAYANA MURTHY, Founder and CEO of Infosys Technology: We were all children of a different generation.
   InfosysTechnology公司的创始人和首席执行官：我们都是完全不同与我们的那一代人的孩子。

5. In his time its founder, Derek Browne, who did not shine at school, has been an international athlete and an investment banker.
   组织者德瑞克·布郎（DerekBrowne）是国际著名运动员和投资银行家，可他在读书时并不是很出色。

6. Gloria Steinem, the founder of Ms magazine, says that "Palin shares nothing but a chromosome with Clinton" .
   Ms杂志的创办人GloriaSteinem称“帕林和希拉里的共同点仅仅只在于一条染色体”。

7. A wonderful mother of three and founder of a progressive school, she had probably never once in her life treated any child rudely.
   她是三个孩子的好妈妈并且是一个先进的学校的创始人，在她一生中从来没有粗鲁的对待过她的孩子。

8. Sadly Dr Greenberg's co-founder died in 2009, just a year short of realising his goal of creating a commercial retinal implant.
   遗憾的是格林伯格博士的合作伙伴于2009年去世，离实现他创造出商业化的仿生眼的目标仅仅只有一年时间。