founding fathers

Ben Franklin, one of America's founding fathers, didn't just invent the lightning rod.

美国开国元勋之一本杰明·富兰克林不仅仅发明了避雷针。

Hamilton""flips minstrelsy on its head, offering sympathetic and insightful portrayals of the archetypal white Americans, the founding fathers and mothers, by a cast composed almost entirely of people of color."

而《汉密尔顿》将黑白颠倒，对美国白人原型和建国先贤们的形象做出了正面而深刻的描绘，所选用的演员却几乎全是有色人种。

The Founding Fathers acted on certain moral principles.

开创人是依据一定的道德准则行事的.

To economic-history buffs, it's akin to the gathering of the founding fathers at the constitutional convention.

对经济史爱好者来说，它堪比制宪会议上美国建国之父们的那次聚会。

You're that family with the conspiracy theory about the Founding Fathers?

你是那个宣扬我们建国先辈阴谋理论的家族?

In the 18th century, founding fathers such as Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson argued bitterly about whether to support the French revolution.

18世纪，亚历山大？汉密尔顿（Alexander Hamilton）和托马斯？杰斐逊（Thomas jefferson）等美国的开国之父，曾就是否应支持法国大革命展开激辩。

H . G . Wells remains one of the founding fathers of science fiction.

威尔斯是科幻小说的创始人之一.

A: The Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution.

答: 开国先贤拟定宪法.

As Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, a former member of the board of the European Central Bank, recently wrote in these pages: "the founding fathers wanted the euro primarily as a step towards political union."

前欧洲央行（ecb）执行董事会成员托马索帕多阿-斯基奥帕（tommaso padoa-schioppa）最近在为本专栏撰文时指出：“各创始人希望，欧元首先是通向政治联盟的一个步骤。”

He was fascinated by the Founding Fathers.

他特别景仰的是开国元勋.