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。
• An island once owned by his forebears;
  曾被他的前辈占有的岛屿；
• 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。
• My early forebears were simple farmers.
  我早期的祖先们是淳朴的农民。
• 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。
• The mountain Lapps depend on their reindeer for a livelihood, much as their forebears did more than a thousand years ago, and cling to many age-old customs in their seasonal pursuit of pasturelands.
  拉普兰山里人和他们一千多年前的祖先一样，靠他们的驯鹿谋生，坚持着古老的游牧生活的习俗。
• Even the bravest of your forebears kept his Kingsguard close about him in times of peril.
  就算你祖先里最勇猛的人也知道危险的时候不离铁卫。
• And yet the same revolutionary beliefs for which our forebears fought are still at issue around the globe& the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state, but from the hand of god.
  但是我们的祖先为之奋斗的那种革命信念现在在全世界仍然是有争论的。这个信念就是：人类的权利不是国家慷慨给予的，而是上帝的手赐予的。
• The rule of the last great Mongol leader was a complete contrast to the destruction and massacres carried out by his forebears.
  蒙古最后一位大首领的治国方针，与其祖先所推行的毁灭和屠杀政策形成了鲜明的对照。
• 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。