FOUNDATION

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Traducere în limba română

foundation substantiv

1. temelie, bază, fundament;

to lay the foundations of a pune bazele;

(fam.) to lay a good foundation a mânca zdravăn (dimineaţa).

2. întemeiere, înfiinţare, fondare (de oraşe, instituţii).

3. (fig.) bază, temei.

4. fundaţie, ctitorie, aşezământ.

5. fonduri, dotaţie (pentru instituţii culturale);

to be on a foundation a beneficia de fondurile unei înstituţii.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

If he finds cracks in the foundation of your life, he will show them to you, and it would be up to you to patch them up.

(AstrologyZone.com, de Susan Miller)

I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look, or the words, which laid the foundation.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

I was angry at that false report, until, finding myself on my back in the passage, I began to think there might be some foundation for it.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

He helped her in many ways, proving himself a true friend, and Jo was happy, for while her pen lay idle, she was learning other lessons besides German, and laying a foundation for the sensation story of her own life.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

An established society, corporation, foundation or other organization founded and united for a specific purpose, e.g. for health-related research; also used to refer to a building or buildings occupied or used by such organization.

(Institution, NCI Thesaurus)

She had already satisfied herself that he thought Harriet a beautiful girl, which she trusted, with such frequent meetings at Hartfield, was foundation enough on his side; and on Harriet's there could be little doubt that the idea of being preferred by him would have all the usual weight and efficacy.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

We will walk to the farm at the edge of the down, and see how the children go on; we will walk to Sir John's new plantations at Barton Cross, and the Abbeyland; and we will often go to the old ruins of the Priory, and try to trace its foundations as far as we are told they once reached.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

You were charged with setting up the foundation for the coming 29 years of your life, no easy task.

(AstrologyZone.com, de Susan Miller)

You did! and it was not wholly without foundation.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

He appeared to have settled into his original foundation, like a building; and I must confess that my faith in his ever Moving, was not much greater than if he had been a building.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

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