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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

  • They sweep the graveyard, offer sacrifices, and burn spirit money to pay respects to their forebears.
    他们清扫墓地、献上祭品、焚烧纸钱,以表达对先人的敬意。
  • I say immediate forebears, for we have lived only a few generations in Choy Hung.
    不过我家住在那里,只有数代,我们的家庙,却在东江的一个龚公村里。
  • Consequently, they tend to have lesser interest in the cultural heritage of their forebears.
    因此,他们一般上对先人的文化遗产不感兴趣。
  • One of her forebears, the third Aegon, had seen his own mother devoured by his uncle's dragon.
    她的一个祖先,伊耿三世,亲眼看着他的母亲被他叔叔的龙吞食。
  • 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。
  • Even the bravest of your forebears kept his Kingsguard close about him in times of peril.
    就算你祖先里最勇猛的人也知道危险的时候不离铁卫。
  • My early forebears were simple farmers.
    我早期的祖先们是淳朴的农民。
  • Until shortly after World War I, most of these workers were either immigrants or their immediate descendants who came to America from europe, or African Americans whose forebears were brought to the Americas as slaves.
    直到第一次世界大战后不久,这些工人大多数是从欧洲来的移民或他们的子女,或者是美国黑人,他们的祖先是从非洲贩运来的奴隶。
  • Although Napoleon was Corsican, he is considered by most modern Frenchmen to have been French as their own forebears.
    尽管拿破仑是科西嘉人,但今天大多数的法国人仍然认为,作为他们的祖先,他是法国人。