forerunners
英 [ˈfɔːˌrʌnəz]
美 [ˈfɔˌrʌnərz]
n. 先驱; 先行者; 预兆; 前兆
forerunner的复数
柯林斯词典
- N-COUNT 先驱;先行者;预兆
If you describe a person or thing as theforerunnerofsomeone or something similar, you mean they existed before them and either influenced their development or were a sign of what was going to happen.- ...a machine which, in some respects, was the forerunner of the modern helicopter...
在某些方面成为现代直升机前身的机器 - Some respiratory symptoms can be the forerunners of asthma.
一些呼吸道症状可能是哮喘病的先兆。
- ...a machine which, in some respects, was the forerunner of the modern helicopter...
双语例句
- Grey hair has appeared in your sideburns, but you still look young in my eyes because you always keep abreast in the sea of wisdom with the forerunners of the day.
岁月的白发虽然爬上了您的两鬓，在我看来您却永远年轻，因为，在智慧的大海里，您始终与时代的先行者并驾齐驱。 - These are to be the forerunners for your new galactic society.
对于你们这些新的银河成员，早就有了先行者。 - It was the first tale of time travel, and it is considered one of the forerunners of the science fiction genre.
这是第一次时间旅行的故事，它被认为是先行者的科幻小说流派。 - Tree shrews are believed to be forerunners of monkeys.
树据信为猴子的祖先。 - It is a correct way to absorb all the things done by your forerunners before you go forward.
正确的道路是这样：吸取你的前辈所做的一切，然后再往前走。 - Abraham, he declared, and Jesus Christ were his forerunners.
他宣布，亚伯拉罕和耶稣基督是他的先驱。 - Warm rains are the forerunners of spring.
暖雨是春天来临的前兆。 - Guided by the "great liberation of poetic style", the forerunners of free verse are resolved to draw a clear line with classical Chinese in order to make free verse as orthodox.
在“诗体的大解放”旗帜引领下，白话诗的先驱们立志与古典诗歌“划清界限”，以使白话文取得正统地位。 - Once the Finns settled, they may have erected underground sweat houses, forerunners of the savusauna.
芬兰人定居以后，可能就建了地下发汗室，也就是传统的烟熏桑拿的前身。 - Little did they know that they were the forerunners for modern agriculture?
他们并不知道自己是现代农业的先驱。