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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.
然而这位建国之父的观点却遭到了之后的美国人们的质疑，在被摆脱了殖民统治的英国也一样。
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.
马汉是地缘政治学、尤其是地理观念的创始人，他认为研习地图是制定外交政策的精髓，应当超过任何其他考虑。
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.
这一价格已经打破了出版业家族，福布斯在1985年创下的记录。当年，福布斯家族花费156,450美元，买下了一瓶拉菲酒庄在1787年，专门为美国开国元勋托马斯•杰斐逊制作的葡萄酒。

Either you believe, as our founding father said that we were endowed with them by our creator.
你可当做,像我们的国父说的那样,我们的个人权利由造物主赋予
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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.
正是这个稍带争议的观点,使他成了现代自由主义的奠基人,甚至可以说是创始人,因为个人权力优先于义务就意味着,个人利益将优先于集体利益。
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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.