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.- I'll come back to the land of my forebears.
我将回到祖先的土地上。
- I'll come back to the land of my forebears.
双语例句
- 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。 - That's what drew our forebears here.
这正是吸引我们祖先之所在。 - 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。 - In the intervening centuries, my aristocratic forebears had lost their status and wealth due to drink, gambling and poor decisions.
从她往后的几个世纪里，我的贵族祖先们由于饮酒、赌博和一些糟糕的决定而失去了地位和财富。 - He had concluded on Robben Island that when in power he should adopt the consensual politics of his forebears 'royal household.
曼德拉在罗本岛监狱时就断定，如果能够掌握权力，他应该采用他的王室祖先实行的共识政治。 - 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。 - 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。 - My forebears were not so lucky.
我的先辈就没这么幸运了。 - Many of us conform to the outdated customs laid down by our forebears.
我们许多人都遵循祖先立下的过时习俗。 - For I have sworn before you and almighty God the same solemn oath our forebears prescribed nearly a century and three-quarters ago.
因为我已在你们和全能的上帝面前，作了跟我们祖先将近一又四分之三世纪以前所拟定的相同的庄严誓言。