forefather
英 [ˈfɔːfɑːðə(r)]
美 [ˈfɔːrfɑːðər]
n. 祖先，祖宗(尤指男性)
复数：forefathers
BNC.20275 / COCA.18671
同义词辨析
ancestorforefatherprogenitor【导航词义：祖先】
ancestorn. 祖先，祖宗
〔辨析〕
用在谱系或历史书中，强调带有父系或母系嫡系血缘关系，是比祖父母更早的家族成员，无性别之分，女性祖先则常用 ancestress。
〔例证〕
His ancestors came from France.
他的先祖来自法国。
My ancestors have lived on this farm for many generations.
我的祖先已在这个农场生活了好几代。
他的先祖来自法国。
My ancestors have lived on this farm for many generations.
我的祖先已在这个农场生活了好几代。
forefathern. （尤指男性的）祖先，祖宗
〔辨析〕
主要用于正式文体或文学作品，较少用于日常生活或历史书中。
〔例证〕
Our forefathers were the first to invent gunpowder.
我们的祖先最先发明了火药。
我们的祖先最先发明了火药。
progenitorn. 〈正式〉（人或动物的）祖先；先驱
〔辨析〕
不强调血缘关系，也不带家族或种族色彩，只强调遗传性；还可引申指某种观念等的创始者。
〔例证〕
You must do much better than your progenitors.
你一定要比你祖先做得更好。
He is a progenitor of cubism.
他是立体派的创始人。
你一定要比你祖先做得更好。
He is a progenitor of cubism.
他是立体派的创始人。
牛津词典
noun
- 祖先，祖宗（尤指男性）
a person (especially a man) in your family who lived a long time ago
柯林斯词典
- N-COUNT (尤指男性)祖先，先人
Yourforefathersare your ancestors, especially your male ancestors.- They were determined to go back to the land of their forefathers.
他们决意回到祖先的土地上。
- They were determined to go back to the land of their forefathers.
英英释义
noun
- the founder of a family
- keep the faith of our forefathers
- person from an earlier time who contributed to the tradition shared by some group
- our forefathers brought forth a great nation
双语例句
- They named it Dan after their forefather dan, who was born to israel& though the city used to be called laish.
照着他们始祖以色列之子但的名字，给那城起名叫但。原先那城名叫拉亿。 - The forefather is Yiwu city biyang crystal artwork factory.
其前身是义乌市彼洋水晶工艺品厂。 - John Locke is the forefather of the doctrine of western liberalism. His theory of liberty is embodied in his thought of Natural Law, Natural Right and Social Contract.
洛克作为西方自由主义学说的始祖，其自由理论体现在他的自然法、自然权利、社会契约理论中。 - It was said the forefather of the human being is ape.
据说人类的祖先是猿。 - We mine web page structure, fully utilize HTML mark and news feature on the basis of forefather's research, propose the thematic content extraction method based on division webpage.
我们在前人的研究基础上，挖掘Web页面结构特征、充分利用Html标记与新闻特征，重点从Web页面编者对文本修饰角度出发，提出了基于网页内容分割的主题内容抽取方法。 - Leibniz was an inventor of the calculus and a forefather of modern mathematical logic.
莱布尼茨是一个发明家的演算以及祖先的现代数理逻辑。 - Whatever happens, Tyrion and his twin, teclis, suffer under the curse of their forefather, brought down upon the family when Aenarion drew khaine's blade to fight the forces of chaos.
不管怎样，泰瑞欧和他的双胞胎弟弟泰欧斯都要经历他们祖先的磨难，这是阿纳瑞欧挥动盖恩之剑与混乱力量战斗时带给家族的。 - It is a well-fixed ground's time and investigated folk custom where the native people love the traditional culture left by forefather, thereby the tradition has a good survival space there.
这是一片已经富裕起来的土地，当地的人们热爱祖先留下来的传统文化，所以能够使得传统在这片土地上有较好的生存空间。 - The conspectus: across-the-board summarize and generalize forefather's research on the poesy and poetics theory of B.
导论，全面总结和概括了前人对巴·布林贝赫诗歌和诗学理论的研究情况。 - But unlike their forefather Abraham Lincoln, who set out to deliberately hurt some feelings, modern US presidents have taken extreme care not to offend any sensibilities with their Christmas message.
当年，林肯的出发点是故意伤害一部分人的感情，现在的美国总统们不会这样做，他们非常小心谨慎，不希望自己的圣诞祝词会冒犯任何人。