forefather
英 [ˈfɔːfɑːðə(r)]
美 [ˈfɔːrfɑːðər]
n. 祖先，祖宗(尤指男性)
复数：forefathers
BNC.20275 / COCA.18671
同义词辨析
ancestorforefatherprogenitor【导航词义：祖先】
ancestorn. 祖先，祖宗
〔辨析〕
用在谱系或历史书中，强调带有父系或母系嫡系血缘关系，是比祖父母更早的家族成员，无性别之分，女性祖先则常用 ancestress。
〔例证〕
His ancestors came from France.
他的先祖来自法国。
My ancestors have lived on this farm for many generations.
我的祖先已在这个农场生活了好几代。
他的先祖来自法国。
My ancestors have lived on this farm for many generations.
我的祖先已在这个农场生活了好几代。
forefathern. （尤指男性的）祖先，祖宗
〔辨析〕
主要用于正式文体或文学作品，较少用于日常生活或历史书中。
〔例证〕
Our forefathers were the first to invent gunpowder.
我们的祖先最先发明了火药。
我们的祖先最先发明了火药。
progenitorn. 〈正式〉（人或动物的）祖先；先驱
〔辨析〕
不强调血缘关系，也不带家族或种族色彩，只强调遗传性；还可引申指某种观念等的创始者。
〔例证〕
You must do much better than your progenitors.
你一定要比你祖先做得更好。
He is a progenitor of cubism.
他是立体派的创始人。
你一定要比你祖先做得更好。
He is a progenitor of cubism.
他是立体派的创始人。
牛津词典
noun
- 祖先，祖宗（尤指男性）
a person (especially a man) in your family who lived a long time ago
柯林斯词典
- N-COUNT (尤指男性)祖先，先人
Yourforefathersare your ancestors, especially your male ancestors.- They were determined to go back to the land of their forefathers.
他们决意回到祖先的土地上。
- They were determined to go back to the land of their forefathers.
英英释义
noun
- the founder of a family
- keep the faith of our forefathers
- person from an earlier time who contributed to the tradition shared by some group
- our forefathers brought forth a great nation
双语例句
- But unlike their forefather Abraham Lincoln, who set out to deliberately hurt some feelings, modern US presidents have taken extreme care not to offend any sensibilities with their Christmas message.
当年，林肯的出发点是故意伤害一部分人的感情，现在的美国总统们不会这样做，他们非常小心谨慎，不希望自己的圣诞祝词会冒犯任何人。 - Fletcher was a famous American theologian and ethicist, who is regarded as the founder and the forefather of the bioethics in the20th century.
弗莱彻是美国20世纪著名的神学家、伦理学家，是生命伦理学的奠基人和先驱者。 - In fact, the forefather of Chen rooted from Hugongman, so it was imaginable.
事实上南朝陈政权的祖先在很大程度上就是胡公满，因而他的祭祀合情合理。 - This paper integrates the western consumption theory to the special background of economy transition period, analyses the western consumption theory's suitability and feasibility in China, and draws the conclusion different from forefather's research.
本文正是基于经济转型期这个特殊背景，结合经济转型期的特点分析西方消费理论在研究我国居民消费行为过程中的适用性及可行性，得出了与前人研究不同的结论。 - This paper attempts to study the old man of the wilderness in American literature so as to reveal the American national cultural psychology in constructing the image of their forefather and thus establishing their own identity.
本文通过对美国文学中荒野老人形象的研究，试图揭示美利坚民族建构父亲形象、确立自我身份的民族文化心理。 - Based on forefather educators'theory, the dissertation mainly studies how to use the problem teaching method in middle school.
本文在借鉴前人的基础上，主要探讨在初中语文阅读教学中如何应用问题教学法。 - Your God is one and your forefather is one.
你的真主只有一位，你的祖先只有一位。 - Like his forefather, Benny had the ability to foresee the future.
像他的祖先一样，本尼有能力预知将来。 - John Donne is highly reputed as the forefather of the seventeenth century metaphysical school in England.
约翰·邓恩（JohnDonne）被誉为17世纪英国玄学诗派的鼻祖。 - As one of the representations of english empiricism and the forefather of modern experimental science, francis bacon's view of language always is neglected.
培根是英国经验主义的代表人物和现代实验科学的奠基人。但是对他语言观的研究却一直被人们忽视。