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.
  1. I'll come back to the land of my forebears.
     我将回到祖先的土地上。

双语例句

• An island once owned by his forebears;
  曾被他的前辈占有的岛屿；
• That's what drew our forebears here.
  这正是吸引我们祖先之所在。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。