想法或事情的根基
把地基的畫面從磚石搬到抽象的東西上:一個想法、一項能力、一套局面,也可以是別的東西賴以建立、賴以長出來的底層。
basis · noun · C1
A basic idea, skill, or situation that something else is built on and grows from.
基礎；根基
核心畫面
The solid base built underneath, before anything else goes up. Picture the stone-and-cement layer dug in under a house: it carries all the weight, and if it's weak everything above is in danger. Every other meaning is this same 'the load-bearing layer that everything stands on', moved from real building to ideas, makeup, organizations.
可以想成在其他東西蓋上去之前，先打在底下的那塊堅實基底。畫面是房子地下那層石頭與水泥:它扛住全部重量,基底一弱,上面…更多收起
可以想成在其他東西蓋上去之前，先打在底下的那塊堅實基底。畫面是房子地下那層石頭與水泥:它扛住全部重量,基底一弱,上面的一切都危險。其他意思都是同一個「承重的底層」,只是從真正的蓋房子,搬到想法、化妝、組織上。From the picture
創立與基金會
從「打底」延伸到「打底這個動作本身」,以及為某個長久目的而設立、用來撐起後續工作的機構——都是在替某件事建立可以長久立足的起點。
founding (of an organization) · noun · C1
The act of starting an organization, business, or school.
創立；成立
妝前打底的粉底
把「底層」搬到臉上:在其他彩妝之前先抹上的那層,跟地基一樣,是先鋪好、讓後面的東西蓋上去的基礎。
makeup foundation · noun · C1
A skin-colored cream you put on your face before the rest of your make-up.
粉底
Also in this word
building's base · noun · C1
The solid layer of stone, cement, or brick built under a building to hold it up.
地基
原始詞典資料9 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
foundationnoun/ˌfaʊ̯nˈdeɪ̯ʃən/
- 1
The act of founding, fixing, establishing, or beginning to erect.
- The foundation of his institute has been wrought with difficulty.
- 2
That upon which anything is founded; that on which anything stands, and by which it is supported; the lowest and supporting layer of a superstructure; underbuilding.
- Aye Madam to be sure that is the Provoking circumstance—without Foundation—yes yes—there's the mortification indeed—for when a slanderous story is believed against one—there certainly is no comfort like the consciousness of having deserved it——
- Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.
- 3
The result of the work to begin something; that which stabilizes and allows an enterprise or system to develop.
- The implication is that the Gandhian model of growth is possible, now that Nehru's investment strategy had already laid a strong foundation for economic growth.
- 4
card-gamesgamesIn solitaire or patience games, one of the piles of cards that the player attempts to build, usually holding all cards of a suit in ascending order.
- 5
architectureThe lowest and supporting part or member of a wall, including the base course and footing courses; in a frame house, the whole substructure of masonry.
- The foundations of this construction have been laid out.
- “Marge Gets A Job” opens with the foundation of the Simpson house tilting perilously to one side, making the family homestead look like the suburban equivalent of the Leaning Tower Of Pisa.
- 6
A donation or legacy appropriated to support a charitable institution, and constituting a permanent fund; endowment.
- 7
That which is founded, or established by endowment; an endowed institution or charity.
- The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. is the parent organization of the Wiktionary collaborative project.
- 8
cosmeticslifestyleCosmetic cream roughly skin-colored, designed to make the face appear uniform in color and texture.
另外 1 個記錄的用法
- 9
A basis for social bodies or intellectual disciplines.
- Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too.[…]But as a foundation for analysis it is highly subjective: it rests on difficult decisions about what counts as a territory, what counts as output and how to value it. Indeed, economists are still tweaking it.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。