forebears

英 [fɔːˈbeəz] 美 [ˈfɔrˌbɛrz]

n.  祖先; 祖宗
forebear的复数

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  1. N-COUNT 祖先;前辈
    Your forebears are your ancestors.
    1. I'll come back to the land of my forebears.
      我将回到祖先的土地上。
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双语例句

  1. I'll come back to the land of my forebears.
    我将回到祖先的土地上。
  2. As I backed out of the river water, I wondered what my forebears would have though if they had had to put up with so many silly laws.
    我从河水中退出去的时候想，如果祖先们必须忍受那么多愚蠢的法律，不知道他们做何感想。
  3. My early forebears were simple farmers.
    我早期的祖先们是淳朴的农民。
  4. 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。
  5. 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。
  6. That's what drew our forebears here.
    这正是吸引我们祖先之所在。
  7. 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。
  8. My forebears were not so lucky.
    我的先辈就没这么幸运了。
  9. 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。
  10. In the intervening centuries, my aristocratic forebears had lost their status and wealth due to drink, gambling and poor decisions.
    从她往后的几个世纪里，我的贵族祖先们由于饮酒、赌博和一些糟糕的决定而失去了地位和财富。
  11. The mountain Lapps depend on their reindeer for a livelihood, much as their forebears did more than a thousand years ago, and cling to many age-old customs in their seasonal pursuit of pasturelands.
    拉普兰山里人和他们一千多年前的祖先一样，靠他们的驯鹿谋生，坚持着古老的游牧生活的习俗。
  12. Our success will do credit to our forebears and bring benefit to our posterity.
    我们的成功将继承先贤，泽被后世。
  13. 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。
  14. 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。
  15. 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。
  16. 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。
  17. So professional footballers seem to recreate the intense emotions in some fans that tribal warfare aroused in their forebears.
    所以，职业足球选手似乎能对一些球迷再现当年部落战争对他们的祖先所产生的那种紧张情绪。
  18. Her mother's forebears had come out of Britain by way perhaps of Connecticut generations back, and her father's forbears ultimately out of Holland.
    她母亲的祖先来自英国，在来到俄亥俄之前可能在康涅狄格生活了好几代，而她父亲的先祖则来自荷兰。
  19. An island once owned by his forebears;
    曾被他的前辈占有的岛屿；
  20. 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。
  21. 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。
  22. 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。
  23. The rule of the last great Mongol leader was a complete contrast to the destruction and massacres carried out by his forebears.
    蒙古最后一位大首领的治国方针，与其祖先所推行的毁灭和屠杀政策形成了鲜明的对照。
  24. 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。
  25. 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。
  26. 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。
  27. Many of us conform to the outdated customs laid down by our forebears.
    我们许多人都遵循祖先立下的过时习俗。
  28. 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。
  29. 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。
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