例文・使い方で印象づける「foundations」の覚え方
スポンサーリンク...The agent of that Society, Jehudi Ashmun, becameafter 1822, the virtual head of the colony; he fortified and enlargedit, and laid the foundations of an independent community... 
W. E. B. Du Bois 「The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America」
...These having atlength been completed, I marked out the positions for the abutments andpiers, and the work of sinking their foundations was begun...
J. H. Patterson 「The Man-eaters of Tsavo and Other East African Adventures」
...After a few weeks of hard work the foundations were ready, and a day was appointed for the laying of the corner-stone...
Booker T. Washington 「Up From Slavery: An Autobiography」
...Out of thecolleges of the North came, after the blood of war, Ware, Cravath, Chase,Andrews, Bumstead and Spence to build the foundations of knowledge andcivilization in the black South...
Booker T. Washington, et al. 「The Negro Problem」
... "To sum up all these ideas in one inclusive question: What is the principle of heredity? What are the foundations of inequality? What is property? ...
P. J. Proudhon 「What is Property?」
... This chapter and the next will serve to lay the foundations of this extraordinary doctrine...
P. J. Proudhon 「What is Property?」
...In Algeria it is said to nest in "societies more denselycrowded than any rookery," the nests being raised on islets withstout foundations constructed by the bird...
Rev. C. A. Johns 「British Birds in their Haunts」
...He felt himself sinking—down, down, down to thevery foundations of the world...
John Charles Beecham 「The Argus Pheasant」
...It is true that the female always selects anuneven support on which the foundations of the nest can be shaped, thusobtaining a firm hold...
J. H. Fabre Bernard Miall 「Social Life in the Insect World」
...We find so many of the old homes repaired and restocked that I suspect the Bee of laying new foundations only when there are no secondhand nests to be had...
J. Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Mason-bees」
...Plenty of theories are based on equally shaky foundations...
J. Henri Fabre 「Bramble-bees and Others」
...Deepshade and barred and netted shadow turnto almost even whiteness, as the axe sapsthe foundations of summer homes of birdsand the winter fastnesses of the squirrelsand raccoons...
Rowland E. Robinson 「In New England Fields and Woods」
...It causes disastrous conflagrations; floods houses by gnawing leadwater pipes; ruins artificial ponds and embankments by burrowing;and damages foundations, floors, doors, and furnishings of dwellings...
David E. Lantz 「House Rats and Mice」
...Many modern public buildings are so constructed that rats canfind no lodgment in the walls or foundations, and yet in a few years,through negligence, such buildings often become infested with thepests...
David E. Lantz 「House Rats and Mice」
...—Granaries, corncribs, and poultry houses may bemade rat-proof by a liberal use of cement in the foundations andfloors; or the floors may be of wood resting upon concrete...
David E. Lantz 「House Rats and Mice」
...Rat-proof granaries, corncribs, and poultry houses may be constructed bya liberal use of concrete in the foundations and floors...
David Lantz 「Methods of Destroying Rats」
...“I was just scraping up the crumbs where there’s all the rough stones yonder as I have been leaving so as not to loosen the foundations, when something scuttled along there...
George Manville Fenn 「Dead Man's Land」
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