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.
  1. I'll come back to the land of my forebears.
     我将回到祖先的土地上。

双语例句

• 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。
• Many of us conform to the outdated customs laid down by our forebears.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。
• 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 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。
• 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 early forebears were simple farmers.
  我早期的祖先们是淳朴的农民。
• 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。
• 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。
• Our success will do credit to our forebears and bring benefit to our posterity.
  我们的成功将继承先贤，泽被后世。
• An island once owned by his forebears;
  曾被他的前辈占有的岛屿；