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
- 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。 - 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。 - An island once owned by his forebears;
曾被他的前辈占有的岛屿； - He rejected the religion of his forebears, leaving his own parents heartbroken.
他放弃了祖宗的宗教，使他的双亲非常伤心。 - The rule of the last great Mongol leader was a complete contrast to the destruction and massacres carried out by his forebears.
蒙古最后一位大首领的治国方针，与其祖先所推行的毁灭和屠杀政策形成了鲜明的对照。 - 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。 - I'll come back to the land of my forebears.
我将回到祖先的土地上。 - And yet the same revolutionary beliefs for which our forebears fought are still at issue around the globe& the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state, but from the hand of god.
但是我们的祖先为之奋斗的那种革命信念现在在全世界仍然是有争论的。这个信念就是：人类的权利不是国家慷慨给予的，而是上帝的手赐予的。 - One of her forebears, the third Aegon, had seen his own mother devoured by his uncle's dragon.
她的一个祖先，伊耿三世，亲眼看着他的母亲被他叔叔的龙吞食。 - 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。