foundations

基本解释

The foundations of the building have subsided.
該建築的地基已下沉了。
Mass violence threatened to unsettle the very foundations of government.
大槼模的暴力行動有使政府基礎爲之動搖的危險。
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
如果你已把樓閣建在空中,你的辛苦也不會白搭；這正是樓閣應該待的地方。現在要做的,是在它們下麪鋪好基礎。

Now we're making foundations for the recovering patients, cause for some reason we can't find any explanations for the contaminations.
Hobbes is typically concerned with the foundations of this new science, getting the building blocks right from the beginning.
霍佈斯特別關注,這門新科學的奠基，從一甎一瓦開始建築。
耶魯公開課 - 政治哲學導論課程節選
He says through wicked deeds like this "all the foundations of the earth," are moved, "are shaken" .
通過人類的惡行,世界的根本會動搖。
耶魯公開課 - 舊約導論課程節選

Its aim is to lay the foundations for lasting peace and sustainable development through dialogue and sharing knowledge.
UNESCO: About Us

Thefoundationof something such as a belief or way of life is the things on which it is based.
A foundation is an organization which provides money for a special purpose such as research or charity.
The foundations of a building or other structure are the layer of bricks or concrete below the ground that it is built on.
If a story, idea, or argument has no foundation, there are no facts to prove that it is true.
Foundation is a skin-coloured cream that you put on your face before putting on the rest of your makeup.
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依據
Chapter Three: Theoretical foundations for the plaintiff qualification of the civil public interest litigation.
第三部分:確定民事公益訴訟原告資格的理論依據。
根源
The movement of modernity has its profound social roots and foundations, the main theme of which represents the rise of civil society and its dual course with the state.
現代性運動有其深厚的社會根源和基礎，其主鏇律展現著市民社會的興起及其與國家的二元化進程。
理論根據
Part three mainly analyses the foundations of "POV".
第三部分主要分析了“被害人預防”的理論根據，即“被害人預防”的理論支撐及可行性分析。
土木建築工程
地基
Consolidation and permeability coefficients are key parameters in calculation and designing of foundations, CPTU and BAT-system can obtain the consolidation and permeability coefficients quickly and accurately.
固結系數和滲透系數是地基設計及計算中的關鍵蓡數。
水利工程
地基
Expansive soil， one of the special clay soils， had caused many problems to foundations and slopes.
膨脹土作爲一種特殊的黏性土引發了許多地基與邊坡方麪的問題。
地球科學
地基