forefathers
英 [ˈfɔːˌfɑːðəz]
美 [ˈfɔrˌfɑðərz]
n. 祖先,祖宗(尤指男性)
forefather的复数
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.
双语例句
- Don't walk in your forefathers 'footprints; Seek what they sought.
不要走先人的足迹,要寻找他们所要寻找的。 - In their fear your forefathers gathered you too near together.
出于恐惧,你们的祖先将你们聚得过近。 - In modern society, still there are great number of Chinese men follow their forefathers.
到了现代社会,还是有为数不少的中国男人继承着老祖宗的“遗志”。 - What we have now was built from the imagination of our forefathers.
我们所有的一切都是建立在前人想像的基础上。 - We forefathers would never have come had your mother not called.
你妈要是不呼招的话,我们这些列祖列宗们是不会在这里的。 - As I walked along the river towards the ford, I thought about my forefathers.
我一边沿着河边朝浅滩走去,一边想我的祖先们。 - I have always said, and our forefathers told us this, that the greatest threat to the people is always government.
我曾一直在说,而我们的前辈们告诉我们这个,对人民最大的威胁永远是政府。 - Our forefathers once lived in caves.
我们的祖先曾在洞穴居住。 - Your forefathers ate manna and died, but he who feeds on this bread will live forever.
吃这粮的人,就永远活着,不像你们的祖宗吃过吗哪还是死了。 - We are now engaged in a great and most glorious cause, never undertaken by our forefathers.
我们正在做我们的前人从来没有做过的极其光荣伟大的事业。