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
- 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - That's what drew our forebears here.
这正是吸引我们祖先之所在。 - Many of us conform to the outdated customs laid down by our forebears.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。 - An island once owned by his forebears;
曾被他的前辈占有的岛屿； - 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。 - 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。 - 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。