The church has agreed to repay $41 million in fees that date back to 1882, which is when ground was first broken on the building.

该教堂同意付还4100万美元费用，该笔费用可追溯到1882年，当时首次为该建基。

" To lay a foundation" means to put usually concrete or some sort of stone on the ground, and usually underneath the ground, to support the house, to support the weight of the house.

“基” 是指通常在上放置混凝土或某种石头， 通常在下， 以支撑房屋，支撑房屋的重量。

And I realized that I really like to follow things I'm passionate about versus sort of the rigor of studying like the fundamentals all across the board and building up and castle.

我意识到，我更愿意追随自己的热情所在，而不是像面系统学习基础知识并层层构建那样严谨研究，后者就像是在基上再建城堡。

They discovered Herculaneum while digging  to lay a foundation for a royal palace, and they quickly began looking for other cities  that had been buried.

他们在为王宫基时挖掘赫库兰尼姆，并迅寻找其他被掩埋的城市。

They initially created robots so that they could replace workers — for instance, digging out certain parts of the land to lay the foundation.

李：他们最初制造机器人是为了代替工人——例如，挖掘某些土来基。

The last four years we've done $89,000, and that did the land, the septic, the well, the access road, the electricity, and a foundation.

过去四年我们花了89,000美元，这些钱用于购置土、安装化粪系统、井、修建进路、通电以及基。

Two weeks earlier, my team had documented an unknown settlement, so we were painstakingly mapping, building foundations by hand -- hundreds of them.

两周前，我的团队记录了一个未知的定居点， 所以我们煞费苦心绘制图，手工基——有数百个。

We laid the new foundation last week.

上周我们了新的基。

It took the builders three weeks to lay the foundations.

【foundation】建工人花了三星期的时间基。