| 词汇 | foundered |
| 释义 | foundered past simple and past participle offounder founder verb[ I ] uk /ˈfaʊn.dər/ us /ˈfaʊn.dɚ/ (especially of a boat) to fill with water and sink: （尤指船）沉没 The ferry foundered in a heavy storm, taking many of the passengers and crew with it.这艘渡船在一次强风暴中沉没，很多乘客和船员遇难。 to be unsuccessful: 失败，砸锅 founder onTeaching computers to read and write has always foundered on the unpredictable human element in language.教计算机读写的尝试总是因为语言中不可预测的人为因素而宣告失败。 Staying afloat, capsizing & sinking bail out buoy buoyancy buoyant buoyantly capsize float floatation flotation founder ground kickboard outrigger refloat ride run aground/ashoreidiom scupper scuttle sunken waterlogged You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Failing and doing badly Examples of founderedfoundered In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Previous, often intensive control programmes have foundered, and we cannot point to a clear-cut example of successful large-scale scrapie control. When it finally decided to introduce a growthinhibiting incomes policy to restrain inflation, it foundered in the 1978-9 'winter of discontent'. The hopes that an independent, transnational community might emerge among this group of experts foundered on the clash of the national perspectives they represented. As he declined to address himself to the intractable problems which it raised, it became the rock upon which he foundered. Although initial efforts to augment the efficiency and accountability of public servants foundered, modest successes have been achieved. However, this programme also foundered in the face of limited budget allocations and failed to receive funding at this stage. Political change in the 1830s had foundered because active groups had based utopian ambitions on unrealistic foundations. When the project foundered a year later, he made the best of a bad thing by writing a history of the failed expedition. It foundered on self-interest and cruel lack of interest, and seems to have been characterized by nothing more admirable than intellectual arrogance in the face of real suffering. His overture through the normal channels foundered. Old forms of regulation (notably through public ownership) foundered on problems of both economic efficiency and public accountability. This article will make clear the heterogeneity and complexity of this worldview, one of the inherent reasons for the crisis of confidence in which it foundered. In the past such innovative schemes as night-sitter services and incontinence laundry services have foundered because of a perceived lack of demand, when lack of publicitiy was the culprit. Successive population projections in this country, like many other sociological predictions, have often foundered in the past because of a failure to anticipate the gap between intentions and events. Baldwin was well aware that tariff reform had foundered before 1914 on the charge of being a tax on working-class food and that this charge would be repeated. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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