forebears

英 [fɔːˈbeəz]

美 [ˈfɔrˌbɛrz]

n.  祖先; 祖宗
forebear的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 祖先;前辈
  Yourforebearsare your ancestors.
  1. I'll come back to the land of my forebears.
     我将回到祖先的土地上。

双语例句

• All the rigid rule of his forebears, all the domination of an unjust social order, grip him.
  父辈的严峻的法规，不公平的社会制度，把他牢牢地控制住了。
• When our forebears still lived in caves, the senses were essential survival tools.
  我们的祖先生活在洞穴中的时候，感觉器官是他们最基本的生存工具。
• My early forebears were simple farmers.
  我早期的祖先们是淳朴的农民。
• Her mother's forebears had come out of Britain by way perhaps of Connecticut generations back, and her father's forbears ultimately out of Holland.
  她母亲的祖先来自英国，在来到俄亥俄之前可能在康涅狄格生活了好几代，而她父亲的先祖则来自荷兰。
• For I have sworn before you and almighty God the same solemn oath our forebears prescribed nearly a century and three-quarters ago.
  因为我已在你们和全能的上帝面前，作了跟我们祖先将近一又四分之三世纪以前所拟定的相同的庄严誓言。
• One of her forebears, the third Aegon, had seen his own mother devoured by his uncle's dragon.
  她的一个祖先，伊耿三世，亲眼看着他的母亲被他叔叔的龙吞食。
• So long as men remember the wrongs done to their forebears, no peace will ever last.
  只要人们还记得先辈曾遭受的不幸，和平就不会持久。
• Our success will do credit to our forebears and bring benefit to our posterity.
  我们的成功将继承先贤，泽被后世。
• So professional footballers seem to recreate the intense emotions in some fans that tribal warfare aroused in their forebears.
  所以，职业足球选手似乎能对一些球迷再现当年部落战争对他们的祖先所产生的那种紧张情绪。
• He had concluded on Robben Island that when in power he should adopt the consensual politics of his forebears 'royal household.
  曼德拉在罗本岛监狱时就断定，如果能够掌握权力，他应该采用他的王室祖先实行的共识政治。