英语释义

1. ancestor sense 1a

2. a person of an earlier period and common heritage

3. a person (especially a man) who was in your family in past times

4. a person (especially a man) from an earlier time who helped to create or start something modern or important

5. ancestor sense 1

片语

Rude Forefathers粗鄙祖先

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

the leading forefathers父祖辈领袖

our forefathers古人

stirps种族；祖先；血统（stirp的复数形式）

forefathers ancestry ancestors forebears祖先

altai forefathers阿尔泰先民

forefathers E祖先

primitive forefathers远古先民

Sins of our Forefathers先辈的罪

ancestors forefathers祖辈

英汉例句

• i wonder what our forefathers were thinking when they entrusted the whole american enterprise to a bunch of illiterate farmers.

  当我们的祖先把美国全部事业托付给一批目不识丁的农民时，我怀疑他们在想什么。

• 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。

• they will fill your houses and those of all your officials and all the egyptians-something neither your fathers nor your forefathers have ever seen from the day they settled in this land till now.

  你的宫殿和你众臣仆的房屋，并一切埃及人的房屋，都要被蝗虫占满了；自从你祖宗和你祖宗的祖宗在世以来，直到今日，没有见过这样的灾。

• i thank god, whom i serve, as my forefathers did, with a clear conscience, as night and day i constantly remember you in my prayers.

  我感谢神，就是我接续祖先，用清洁的良心所事奉的神，祈祷的时候，不住地想念你

• now fear the lord and serve him with all faithfulness. throw away the gods your forefathers worshiped beyond the river and in egypt, and serve the lord.

  现在你们要敬畏耶和华，诚心实意地事奉他，将你们列祖在大河那边和在埃及所事奉的神除掉，去事奉耶和华。

• from ancient times our forefathers have laboured, lived and multiplied on this land.

  自古以来，我们的祖先就劳动、生息、繁衍在这块土地上。

• even the men and women seem as well rooted as the brickwork as they go about mimicking their forefathers in traditional dress and for their livings.

  甚至城里的人们也像那些古老的砖瓦房屋一样保持着古老的传统，他们穿着祖辈那样的服装，过着祖辈那样传统的生活。

• as my forefathers planted these for me, so i too plant these for my children.

  既然我的祖先为我栽树，我也该为我的孩子们栽些树呀。

• the american ought therefore to love this country much better than that wherein either he or his forefathers were born.

  因此，美国人应当爱这个国家，胜过爱那个他自己或他的祖先出生的国家。

• no one can stop what our fathers and forefathers have done for thousands of years.

  没有人能够阻止我们父亲和祖先在几千年前所做的。

• after jacob entered egypt, they cried to the lord for help, and the lord sent moses and aaron, who brought your forefathers out of egypt and settled them in this place.

  从前雅各到了埃及，后来你们列祖呼求耶和华，耶和华就差遣摩西，亚伦领你们列祖出埃及，使他们在这地方居住。

• they were left to test the israelites to see whether they would obey the lord's commands, which he had given their forefathers through moses.

  留下这几族，为要试验以色列人，知道他们肯听从耶和华借摩西吩咐他们列祖的诫命不肯。

• woe to you, because you build tombs for the prophets, and it was your forefathers who killed them.

  你们有祸了！因为你们修造先知的坟墓，那先知正是你们的祖宗所杀的。

• i ask you to help reveal that character once more, and together, we can carry forward as one nation, and one people, the legacy of our forefathers that we celebrate today.

  我请求你们再次共同使这个国家彰显出她本质的魅力，连同我们祖先遗留下来的精神，作为一个国家，一个整体，一起庆祝。

• student a: can you tell me how our forefathers lived without electricity, radio, tv and internet in the ancient time?

  学生甲：你说说看，远古的时候既没有电、收音机，也没有电视和互联网，我们的祖先怎么活的啊？

相似词

ancestor始祖，祖先；被继承人

father发明，创立；当…的父亲

grandfather不受新规定限制

primogenitor始祖；祖先

progenitor祖先；原着；起源