forefathers

英 [ˈfɔːˌfɑːðəz]

美 [ˈfɔrˌfɑðərz]

n.  祖先，祖宗(尤指男性)
forefather的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT (尤指男性)祖先，先人
  Yourforefathersare your ancestors, especially your male ancestors.
  1. They were determined to go back to the land of their forefathers.
     他们决意回到祖先的土地上。

双语例句

• We have lost our faith in many of the things in which our forefathers fervently believed.
  我们对自己的前辈们所笃信的许多事物丢失了信任。
• He was deeply interested in them because they are the forefathers of man.
  他对它们深感兴趣，因为它们是人类的祖先。
• Our forefathers brought forth a great nation.
  我们的祖先带来了一个伟大的民族。
• Our forefathers have handed a rich national culture down to us.
  我们的祖先给我们传下来丰富多彩的民族文化。
• This is our custom and our forefathers introduced this system.
  这是我们的习惯和我们的先辈介绍了这一系统。
• You want to know where you came from, who your parents, who your forefathers were.
  你想知道你来自哪里，谁你的父母，谁是你的祖先。
• We forefathers would never have come had your mother not called.
  你妈要是不呼招的话，我们这些列祖列宗们是不会在这里的。
• It is true I am Shawnee. My forefathers were warriors. Their son is a warrior.
  确实，我是萧尼族人，我的祖先都是战士。他们的子孙也是战士。
• They are the most precious cultural legacy our forefathers left.
  它们是我们祖先留下来的最宝贵的文化遗产。
• In modern society, still there are great number of Chinese men follow their forefathers.
  到了现代社会，还是有为数不少的中国男人继承着老祖宗的“遗志”。