forerunners
英 [ˈfɔːˌrʌnəz]
美 [ˈfɔˌrʌnərz]
n. 先驱; 先行者; 预兆; 前兆
forerunner的复数
柯林斯词典
- N-COUNT 先驱;先行者;预兆
If you describe a person or thing as theforerunnerofsomeone or something similar, you mean they existed before them and either influenced their development or were a sign of what was going to happen.- ...a machine which, in some respects, was the forerunner of the modern helicopter...
在某些方面成为现代直升机前身的机器 - Some respiratory symptoms can be the forerunners of asthma.
一些呼吸道症状可能是哮喘病的先兆。
- ...a machine which, in some respects, was the forerunner of the modern helicopter...
双语例句
- Once the Finns settled, they may have erected underground sweat houses, forerunners of the savusauna.
芬兰人定居以后，可能就建了地下发汗室，也就是传统的烟熏桑拿的前身。 - He followed in the steps of forerunners and marched onward.
他跟随着先辈的足迹前进。 - He was one of the forerunners of Santa Claus.
他是圣诞老人先行者的当中一个。 - The forerunners of modern science were gradually discarding magical practices in favor of scientific experiment.
近代科学的鼻祖们逐渐摒弃了各种不可思议的习俗，以利于科学实验的发展。 - Abraham, he declared, and Jesus Christ were his forerunners.
他宣布，亚伯拉罕和耶稣基督是他的先驱。 - Grey hair has appeared in your sideburns, but you still look young in my eyes because you always keep abreast in the sea of wisdom with the forerunners of the day.
岁月的白发虽然爬上了您的两鬓，在我看来您却永远年轻，因为，在智慧的大海里，您始终与时代的先行者并驾齐驱。 - These are to be the forerunners for your new galactic society.
对于你们这些新的银河成员，早就有了先行者。 - It is a correct way to absorb all the things done by your forerunners before you go forward.
正确的道路是这样：吸取你的前辈所做的一切，然后再往前走。 - Joyce also, before feminist forerunners, displays that gender is a matter of personal choice and social construction.
早在女权主义先驱者之前，乔伊斯就指出性别是个人选择和社会形成的综合产物。 - These academies were the forerunners of the more famous ones founded later in england, france, Italy and germany.
这些学院是以后英、法、意大利和德国的一些最有名的科学院的前身。