英语释义

1. ancestor, forefather also precursor —usually used in plural
His forebears fought in the American Civil War.

2. a member of your family in the past

3. ancestor sense 1

片语

ancestors forefathers ancestry forebears祖先

Forebears Prescribed一七五

ancestors forebears祖先

teachings and virtues of forebears慎终追远

antecedents经历；祖先；先行词；前身（antecedent的复数形式）

ancestors forefather forebears指家族较早的先辈

forefathers ancestry ancestors forebears祖先

stirps种族；祖先；血统（stirp的复数形式）

ancestry ancestors forebears forefathers民族或家族较早的上代

英汉例句

• NOT for the first time, Armenians sense a moment of vindication in their struggle for the acknowledgment of the tragedy that befell their forebears during the first world war.

  为让土耳其人承认第一次世界大战时降临于祖先身上的悲剧而进行斗争的过程中，亚美尼亚人已不是第一次感觉到为自己辩护的时机已经到来。

• In June, when the rice is sown, he sings for farmers in their fields, as he says his forebears have done 「for a thousand generations」.

  六月，稻谷播种时，他为地里的农民而歌。他说这已经流传了几千代了，但他的三个儿子没有一个学会这项技能。

• Two centuries ago, our forebears would have known the precise history and source of almost every one of the limited number of things they ate and owned.

  两个世纪以前，我们的祖先可能会已经知道了他们食用的和拥有的几乎所有有限的东西的历史和来源。

• My forebears and relations have lived near Rosses and Drumcliff these many years. A few miles northward I am wholly a stranger, and can find nothing.

  我的祖先和亲戚在罗塞斯和德拉姆·克利夫附近住了多年，但再往北走几英里，我却成了陌生人，什么也发现不了。

• 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。

• Well before a new wave of Western pilgrims turned up in the 19th century, his forebears maintained the tradition that Jacob had settled in Beit Sahour after burying his wife Rachel.

  就在19世纪出现西方朝圣潮之前，他的祖先还保持着传统，雅各埋葬妻子雷切尔（Rachel）之后在拜特萨霍确定此传统。

• The dark past of their forebears threatens to stand in the way of the pair「s love for one another.

  然而他们父辈的阴暗过去却成了挡在他们爱情道路上的屏障。

• The spiky-haired owner of Elmer’s café in central Cardiff will vote Tory, for example, though his forebears worked on the docks.

  举例来说，卡的夫市中心有间艾尔默咖啡屋，店主留着刺猬头发型，虽然他的祖先是在码头工作的，但他为了自己现在的利益还是会投票给保守党；

• We have become extremely acquisitive in a way our forebears never were.

  我们变得极度的贪得无厌。而我们的先人们从不这样。

• The mountain Lapps depend on their reindeer for a livelihood, much as their forebears did more than a thousand years ago, and cling to many age-old customs in their seasonal pursuit of pasturelands.

  拉普兰山里人和他们一千多年前的祖先一样，靠他们的驯鹿谋生，坚持着古老的游牧生活的习俗。

• 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。

• Many of them had only recently discovered an interest in their origins and some, it seems safe to say, held peculiar ideas about where their forebears had come from and what impelled them to leave.

  其实他们中的很多人在那时前不久才刚刚对自己血统的起源地产生兴趣，其中的一部分人——保守一点说——对与他们的祖先的家乡和驱使先辈们离开家乡的原因怀有一些奇怪的想法。

• Since life depends on water, it has been man」s constant companion from the moment his forebears emerged from the sea and, you could say, even before.

  水乃生命之源，自人类祖先诞生于海洋的那一天起，或许更早，水就一直都是人类不离不弃的伙伴。

• And things ancestral, where my forebears came from, and history, that past and present melding; and climate, too, tropical and temperate worlds, all sometimes coming togther as more than metaphor.

  而诸如我的祖先来自哪里、过去与现在融为一起的历史以及热带和温带的两重世界，常常不仅仅是作为隐喻出现在我的作品之中。

• The idea that the forebears of modern humans could talk would scupper the notion that language was the force that created modern human culture—otherwise, why would they not have built civilisations?

  现代人的祖先能够讲话的观点可能会颠覆语言是建立现代人类文明的力量的观念——然而，为什么他们没有建立文明？

• Here I am in a pulpit, dressed like a Puritan minister -an apparition that would have horrified many of my distinguished forebears and perhaps rededicated some of them to the extirpation of witches.

  站在这个讲坛上，我穿得像个清教徒教长——一个可能会吓到我的杰出前辈们的怪物，或许使他们中的一些人重新致力于铲除巫婆的事业上。

相似词

ancestor始祖，祖先；被继承人

father发明，创立；当…的父亲

forefather祖先；前辈

grandfather不受新规定限制

primogenitor始祖；祖先

progenitor祖先；原着；起源