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

• Methods as old as our forefathers;
  象祖辈一样的陈旧方法；
• They retain the religion of their forefathers. I have never questioned that.
  他们保留着祖辈的信仰，我从未怀疑过。
• 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。
• Today the pickpockets have overtaken their forefathers of Dickens 'time in both number and skill.
  今天，扒手在数量及技巧方面都已超过了他们在狄更斯时代的祖辈。
• They were determined to go back to the land of their forefathers.
  他们决意回到祖先的土地上。
• They are the most precious cultural legacy our forefathers left.
  它们是我们祖先留下来的最宝贵的文化遗产。
• This is the place where our forefathers landed.
  这是我们祖先登陆的地方。
• We forefathers would never have come had your mother not called.
  你妈要是不呼招的话，我们这些列祖列宗们是不会在这里的。
• Your forefathers ate manna and died, but he who feeds on this bread will live forever.
  吃这粮的人，就永远活着，不像你们的祖宗吃过吗哪还是死了。
• Our forefathers brought forth a great nation.
  我们的祖先带来了一个伟大的民族。