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
- 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。 - 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。 - All the rigid rule of his forebears, all the domination of an unjust social order, grip him.
父辈的严峻的法规,不公平的社会制度,把他牢牢地控制住了。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - Her mother's forebears had come out of Britain by way perhaps of Connecticut generations back, and her father's forbears ultimately out of Holland.
她母亲的祖先来自英国,在来到俄亥俄之前可能在康涅狄格生活了好几代,而她父亲的先祖则来自荷兰。