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.- I'll come back to the land of my forebears.
我将回到祖先的土地上。
- I'll come back to the land of my forebears.
双语例句
- As Parliamentarians, you share with your forebears a fundamental role in the laws and decisions of your own age.
作为国会议员，你分享了你的祖先中的一个根本性法律。 - My early forebears were simple farmers.
我早期的祖先们是淳朴的农民。 - And yet the same revolutionary beliefs for which our forebears fought are still at issue around the globe& the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state, but from the hand of god.
但是我们的祖先为之奋斗的那种革命信念现在在全世界仍然是有争论的。这个信念就是：人类的权利不是国家慷慨给予的，而是上帝的手赐予的。 - All the rigid rule of his forebears, all the domination of an unjust social order, grip him.
父辈的严峻的法规，不公平的社会制度，把他牢牢地控制住了。 - 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。 - So long as men remember the wrongs done to their forebears, no peace will ever last.
只要人们还记得先辈曾遭受的不幸，和平就不会持久。 - 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。 - I'll come back to the land of my forebears.
我将回到祖先的土地上。 - When our forebears still lived in caves, the senses were essential survival tools.
我们的祖先生活在洞穴中的时候，感觉器官是他们最基本的生存工具。 - He had concluded on Robben Island that when in power he should adopt the consensual politics of his forebears 'royal household.
曼德拉在罗本岛监狱时就断定，如果能够掌握权力，他应该采用他的王室祖先实行的共识政治。