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.
  1. They were determined to go back to the land of their forefathers.
     他们决意回到祖先的土地上。

双语例句

• We didn't betray the forefathers.
  我们没有背叛我们的祖先。
• 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。
• This is the place where our forefathers landed.
  这是我们祖先登陆的地方。
• Our forefathers once lived in caves.
  我们的祖先曾在洞穴居住。
• Generation after generation, our forefathers worked hard and created a splendid culture on this land of ours.
  在这块土地上，我们的祖先一代一代地辛勤劳动，创造出灿烂的文化。
• What we are doing today is something never dreamed of by our forefathers.
  今天我们正做的是我们的前人做梦都未想过的。
• Our forefathers have handed a rich national culture down to us.
  我们的祖先给我们传下来丰富多彩的民族文化。
• They were determined to go back to the land of their forefathers.
  他们决意回到祖先的土地上。
• 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。
• 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”。