forebear

英 [ˈfɔːbeə(r)]

美 [ˈfɔːrber]

n.  祖先; 祖宗

复数：forebears　

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BNC.14442 / COCA.15920

牛津词典

noun

• 祖先；祖宗
  a person in your family who lived a long time ago

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。

英英释义

noun

• a person from whom you are descended
  Synonym:forbear

双语例句

• "Ancestor: a person from whom one is descended, especially if more remote than a grandparent; a forebear."
  祖先：祖宗繁衍后代的人，特别是远于祖父辈；前辈
• Learning the tradition is to make the past serve the present, consider the thing that the forebear hadn't thought of, and make the traditional essence sublimate in the modern design.
  因此，我们要学习传统，古为今用，发前人所未发，想前人所未想，让传统之精华在现代设计中得到升华。
• I'll come back to the land of my forebears.
  我将回到祖先的土地上。
• This study refers to the hand-make design art pieces from the forebear's wisdom and fable and convert the art design into fashion but obtains the meaning of the fable.
  而此研究设计里系利用前人的智慧与寓言里所诞生出的种种手工艺之原件将文化艺术流行化，但也不失其寓意。