founding father

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Subsequent Americans have had reason to question the founding father.So too have people in the land from which the new nation gained its freedom.
然而這位建國之父的觀點(diǎn)卻遭到了之后的美國人們的質(zhì)疑，在被擺脫了殖民統(tǒng)治的英國也一樣。
Mahan was a founding father of geopolitics, in particular the notion that geography—poring over maps—should inform foreign policy more than any other consideration.
馬漢是地緣政治學(xué)、尤其是地理觀念的創(chuàng)始人，他認(rèn)為研習(xí)地圖是制定外交政策的精髓，應(yīng)當(dāng)超過任何其他考慮。
That price smashed the previous record of $156,450, paid in 1985 by the Forbes publishing family for a 1787 Lafite bottled for U.S. Founding Father Thomas Jefferson.
這一價(jià)格已經(jīng)打破了出版業(yè)家族，福布斯在1985年創(chuàng)下的記錄。當(dāng)年，福布斯家族花費(fèi)156,450美元，買下了一瓶拉菲酒莊在1787年，專門為美國開國元?jiǎng)淄旭R斯?杰斐遜制作的葡萄酒。

Either you believe, as our founding father said that we were endowed with them by our creator.
你可當(dāng)做,像我們的國父說的那樣,我們的個(gè)人權(quán)利由造物主賦予
耶魯公開課 - 古希臘歷史簡介課程節(jié)選
This, in many ways arguably, makes him the founding father or maybe we should say godfather of modern liberalism, the importance given to rights over duties, of the individual over in many ways the collective or common good.
正是這個(gè)稍帶爭議的觀點(diǎn),使他成了現(xiàn)代自由主義的奠基人,甚至可以說是創(chuàng)始人,因?yàn)閭€(gè)人權(quán)力優(yōu)先于義務(wù)就意味著,個(gè)人利益將優(yōu)先于集體利益。
耶魯公開課 - 政治哲學(xué)導(dǎo)論課程節(jié)選

Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore's founding father, and still a cabinet minister, puts his own spin on the changes.
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And it is probably best summed up in a quote sometimes attributed to another Founding Father, Thomas Jefferson.
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one of a group of men who started the United States as a country and wrote its constitution

The founding father of an institution, organization, or idea is the person who sets it up or who first develops it.
The Founding Fathers of the United States were the members of the American Constitutional Convention of 1787.