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found1 /faʊnd/

the past tense and past participle of find find的过去式和过去分词

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found• The bank was founded 60 years ago in Munich.• We also found a whole batch of papers which we thought might be vital to the war effort.• Eventually, the spare key was found and they were released from the clutches of the car.• They're still trying to establish a motive for the stabbing of Richard Miles, who was found dead in his garden.• The jealousy and sense of betrayal were so all-consuming that he had found himself unable to move.• She found it practical as well as beautiful.• Who originally founded the college?• Just off the main street, she found the first of the carrion creatures.• I found the pages devoted to soy pastes and fish sauces particularly useful.• Mr. Packard was instrumental in founding the Stanford Industrial Park in the 1950s.• When it came time for her to marry, no suitable groom could be found until a mouse was offered.

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found2 AWL verb [transitiveT]

1 START something/MAKE something STARTto start something such as an organization, company, school, or city, often by providing the necessary money 创立〔组织、公司、学校等〕；创建〔城市〕 SYN establish

Founded in 1935 in Ohio, Alcoholics Anonymous is now a world-wide organization.

嗜酒者互诫协会1935年创立于俄亥俄州，现在是一个世界性的组织。

Eton College was founded by Henry VI in 1440.

伊顿公学于1440年由亨利六世创办。

► see thesaurus at establish

2 be founded on/upon something

a) COME FROM/ORIGINATEto be the main idea, belief etc that something else develops from 建立在某事物的基础上 SYN be based on something

The British parliamentary system is founded on debate and opposition

英国议会制度的基础是辩论质询。

b) TBCto be the solid layer of cement, stones etc that a building is built on 建在某物之上

The castle is founded on solid rock.

这座城堡建在坚固的岩石上。

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be founded on/upon something• The original Stoves company was founded on 14 February 1920.• During these years race became the cultural flashpoint, and most political careers were founded on a rhetoric of purity and exclusion.• You could say it was founded on chili.• The economy of the vale was founded on livestock.• While Aristotle's scheme is founded on normative grounds, Finer's scheme is derived empirically.• After all, they are founded on previous experience.• Racism is not founded on rational thought, but on fear.• The Soviet Union was originally founded on Socialism.• The castle is founded on solid rock.• In a functional sense, spillover was founded on the belief that contemporary economies were based upon a tangle of interrelated sectors.• All grandeur, all power, all discipline are founded on the soldier.

3. technicalTI to melt metal and pour it into a mould (=a hollow shape), to make things such as tools and parts for machines 铸造

—founding noun [uncountableU]

n the founding of the University of Chicago

→ well-founded

Examples from the Corpus

found• We also found a whole batch of papers which we thought might be vital to the war effort.• Eventually, the spare key was found and they were released from the clutches of the car.• They're still trying to establish a motive for the stabbing of Richard Miles, who was found dead in his garden.• The jealousy and sense of betrayal were so all-consuming that he had found himself unable to move.• She found it practical as well as beautiful.• Just off the main street, she found the first of the carrion creatures.• I found the pages devoted to soy pastes and fish sauces particularly useful.• When it came time for her to marry, no suitable groom could be found until a mouse was offered.

From Longman Business Dictionary

foundfound /faʊnd/ verb [transitiveT]ORGANIZATIONS

to start a new company or organization

The company was founded back in 1947.

Origin found2

(1300-1400) Old French fonder, from Latin fundus “bottom”

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