It took the builders three weeks to lay the foundations.

【foundation】建筑工人花了三星期的时间打地基。

The foundation is already done and the beams and rafters are going up.

地基已打好，正在架梁椽。

We laid the new foundation last week.

上周我们打了新的地基。

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.

该教堂还4100万美元费用，该笔费用可追溯到1882年，当时首次为该建筑打地基。

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，我的队记录了一个未知的定居点， 所以我们煞费苦心地绘制地图，手工打地基——有数百个。

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

李：他们最初制人是为了代替工人——例如，挖掘某些土地来打地基。

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.

他们在为王宫打地基时挖掘赫库兰尼姆，并迅速开始寻找其他被掩埋的城市。

" 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.

“打地基” 是指通常在地上放置混凝土或某种石头， 通常在地下， 以支撑房屋，支撑房屋的重量。

24 huge square steel cages  were pushed into the riverbed, brave divers dug out the clay and gravel in  dangerous conditions to create a chamber in which concrete could be laid to build  the foundations for the two towers.

24个巨大的方形钢笼被推入河床，勇敢的潜水员在危险的条件下挖出粘土和砾石，形成一个可以铺设混凝土的房间，为两座塔楼打地基。