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

• I say immediate forebears, for we have lived only a few generations in Choy Hung.
  不过我家住在那里，只有数代，我们的家庙，却在东江的一个龚公村里。
• Chinese are born lovers of things left behind by their forebears, things left behind by their forebears, regardless of political or religious beliefs. There are many moving stories of Chinese people protecting cultural relics during war times.
  中国人自古以来就非常珍视祖先的遗物，这份珍视超越了政治立场和宗教派别，涌现出很多国人于战火中保护文物的动人故事。
• An island once owned by his forebears;
  曾被他的前辈占有的岛屿；
• 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。
• My forebears were not so lucky.
  我的先辈就没这么幸运了。
• 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。
• My early forebears were simple farmers.
  我早期的祖先们是淳朴的农民。
• 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。
• Consequently, they tend to have lesser interest in the cultural heritage of their forebears.
  因此，他们一般上对先人的文化遗产不感兴趣。
• 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。