| 词组 | founded |
| 释义 | founded Founded, when used with a preposition in general applications, is used most often with on: • ... tales of real life, high and low, and founded on fact! —Henry David Thoreau, Waiden, 1854 • ... his instinctive dislike of the middle class was founded on its intellectual sterility —Vernon Louis Parrington, Main Currents in American Thought, 1927 Founded is used in just the same way with upon but our evidence suggests that this use has become somewhat less frequent over the last 25 years: • ... her value as a human being was founded upon a durable, if an intangible, basis —Ellen Glasgow, Barren Ground, 1925 • ... early poems founded upon old French models — The Autobiography of William Butler Yeats, 1953 Founded is also used quite frequently with in. Although this use may have a general application, like that of founded on (as in the first of the following examples), more frequently in signifies a date or place: • ... this criticism is founded in misconception of the true significance of literature —Selected Writings of Benjamin N. Cardozo, ed. Margaret E. Hall, 1947 • The first big-city tutorials were founded in 1962 — Jack J. Levine, Columbia Forum, Spring 1968 • ... Shawn and his wife founded the first of the Den-ishawn schools, in Los Angeles —Current Biography 1949 |
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