1.失败,垮掉
2.【航】沉没
3.(土地等)陷落;掉进(泥淖等里) (in) (房屋等)倒塌
4.(马等)摔倒
5.(马)患蹄叶炎
6.使沉没
7.使摔倒,弄跛(马脚);使倒塌,使垮掉
8.破坏,损害
1.失败,垮掉
2.【航】沉没
3.(土地等)陷落;掉进(泥淖等里) (in) (房屋等)倒塌
4.(马等)摔倒
5.(马)患蹄叶炎
6.使沉没
7.使摔倒,弄跛(马脚);使倒塌,使垮掉
8.破坏,损害
1.奠基者,创立者,创办人
2.(马的)蹄叶炎,胸肌风湿
3.铸造工,翻砂工;铸件
1.to begin to fail
2.if a ship or boat founders, it becomes full of water and sinks
1.someone who starts a school, organization, business, or community
1.Years of trying to lure outside capital and know-how, however, foundered.
然而多年吸引外资和技术的努力归于失败。
2.Before Deepwater Horizon foundered there had not been a big leak from an offshore oil well for 40 years.
在深水地平线号出事前，那里已有40年未出现一起近海油井严重泄漏的事件。
3.Much of the animal-intelligence research of that era ultimately foundered before an onslaught of skeptics.
在那个时代，许多对动物智力的研究最终都因敌不住怀疑论者的攻击而失败。
4.Witnesses say the boat foundered in heavy seas as passengers stampeded to board inflatable life rafts.
目击者说，船作为自乱阵脚登上救生筏充气乘客波涛汹涌的海面沉没。
5.The UN says the ship foundered off the coast of Libya late last week, but the witness accounts are only emerging now.
联合国表示，这艘船只于上周末在利比亚海岸沉没，但是目击者称看到了失事船只的残骸及遇难者遗体漂浮于海上的情景。
6.Negotiations over the federal constitution almost foundered on the subject of the Murray-Darling.
关于修改联邦宪法的谈判几乎在墨累-达令问题上崩盘。
7.Sadly, an attempt to reform the legal profession this week foundered on the self-interest of lawyers in the Italian parliament.
遗憾的是，本周改革法律业的努力被意大利议会中的律师议员出于私利否决。
8.It eventually foundered due to widely differing expectations of the two parties, then Microsoft and American Express Travel Services.
然而由于双方（指微软和美国运通旅行服务）在未来的期望方面出现了广泛的分歧，这家公司最后以失败告终。
9.The boat foundered on rocks near the harbour.
船在港口附近触礁沉没。
10.Its fragile efforts to revive foundered when payment disputes with suppliers halted production and its CEO abruptly resigned.
萨博和供应商发生付款纠纷之后，汽车被迫停产，加之首席执行官突然辞职，使得其图谋复兴的努力付诸东流。