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

• They sweep the graveyard, offer sacrifices, and burn spirit money to pay respects to their forebears.
  他们清扫墓地、献上祭品、焚烧纸钱，以表达对先人的敬意。
• Although Napoleon was Corsican, he is considered by most modern Frenchmen to have been French as their own forebears.
  尽管拿破仑是科西嘉人，但今天大多数的法国人仍然认为，作为他们的祖先，他是法国人。
• 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。
• As I backed out of the river water, I wondered what my forebears would have though if they had had to put up with so many silly laws.
  我从河水中退出去的时候想，如果祖先们必须忍受那么多愚蠢的法律，不知道他们做何感想。
• 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 forebears were not so lucky.
  我的先辈就没这么幸运了。
• My early forebears were simple farmers.
  我早期的祖先们是淳朴的农民。
• 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。
• Until shortly after World War I, most of these workers were either immigrants or their immediate descendants who came to America from europe, or African Americans whose forebears were brought to the Americas as slaves.
  直到第一次世界大战后不久，这些工人大多数是从欧洲来的移民或他们的子女，或者是美国黑人，他们的祖先是从非洲贩运来的奴隶。
• 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。