forefathers

英 [ˈfɔːˌfɑːðəz]

美 [ˈfɔrˌfɑðərz]

n.  祖先，祖宗(尤指男性)
forefather的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT (尤指男性)祖先，先人
  Yourforefathersare your ancestors, especially your male ancestors.
  1. They were determined to go back to the land of their forefathers.
     他们决意回到祖先的土地上。

双语例句

• Our forefathers have handed a rich national culture down to us.
  我们的祖先给我们传下来丰富多彩的民族文化。
• Your forefathers ate manna and died, but he who feeds on this bread will live forever.
  吃这粮的人，就永远活着，不像你们的祖宗吃过吗哪还是死了。
• We have lost our faith in many of the things in which our forefathers fervently believed.
  我们对自己的前辈们所笃信的许多事物丢失了信任。
• As I walked along the river towards the ford, I thought about my forefathers.
  我一边沿着河边朝浅滩走去，一边想我的祖先们。
• As my forefathers planted these for me, so I too plant these for my children.
  既然我的祖先为我栽树，我也该为我的孩子们栽些树呀。
• Generation after generation, our forefathers worked hard and created a splendid culture on this land of ours.
  在这块土地上，我们的祖先一代一代地辛勤劳动，创造出灿烂的文化。
• Don't walk in your forefathers 'footprints; Seek what they sought.
  不要走先人的足迹，要寻找他们所要寻找的。
• He was deeply interested in them because they are the forefathers of man.
  他对它们深感兴趣，因为它们是人类的祖先。
• I have always said, and our forefathers told us this, that the greatest threat to the people is always government.
  我曾一直在说，而我们的前辈们告诉我们这个，对人民最大的威胁永远是政府。
• What we are doing today is something never dreamed of by our forefathers.
  今天我们正做的是我们的前人做梦都未想过的。