开国元勋：指美国独立战争时期为争取独立和建立美国政治制度做出重要贡献的一些杰出人物。
在离白宫不到三个街区，有一家和开国元勋(Founding Fathers)用着同款名字的Founding Farmers。这家传统美式餐厅，在08年开业以来就频频获得殊荣。
近乎神启的预言，和美国国父们（Founding Fathers ）的理想，在如今飞速 发展的互联网技术之下，不断得到应验和实现。
...（建造美国的巨匠们）这部系列剧颠覆了我很多对于商业的认识。看到这个题目，我先是以为是写美国的建国之父（Founding Fathers），而实际上却是讲述美国内战以后的商业大亨。 一切从Vanderbilt开始。
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开国者；开国元勋
Ben Franklin, one of America's founding fathers, didn't just invent the lightning rod.
美国的开国元勋之一本·富兰克林不仅仅只发明了避雷针。
Ben Franklin, one of America' s founding fathers, didn't just invent the lightning rod.
美国的开国元勋之一本·富兰克林所发明的不仅仅是一个避雷针。
More significantly, they argue that many of the Founding Fathers knew slavery was wrong—and yet most did little to fight it.
更重要的是，他们认为许多开国元勋都知道奴隶制是错误的，但大多数人却没有采取什么行动来反对它。
Hamilton was never president. But he was the first Secretary of the Treasury and one of the Founding Fathers.
VOA : special.2010.11.12
And that was how one of America's founding fathers,Benjamin Franklin, came into public life.
VOA : special.2009.04.20
Yet other voices within the tradition--Plato Machiavelli Rousseau come to mind -believed that regimes can be self-consciously founded through deliberate acts of great statesmen or founding fathers as we might call them.
但传统中的其它声音，像柏拉图,马奇亚维利，鲁索却相信,政体可以透过自我意识建立,藉由伟大政治家的谨慎举动,我们也称这些人为国父。
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Franklin was never elected president, but was one of the Founding Fathers.
VOA : special.2010.11.12
The Founding Fathers would be aghast at this flagrant assault on First Amendment religious liberties.
Both sought to tie the best traditions of our founding fathers to today's challenges.
By putting citizens first, the founding fathers established a focal point that transcended state interests.