forefather
英 [ˈfɔːfɑːðə(r)]
美 [ˈfɔːrfɑːðər]
n. 祖先，祖宗(尤指男性)
复数：forefathers
BNC.20275 / COCA.18671
同义词辨析
ancestorforefatherprogenitor【导航词义：祖先】
ancestorn. 祖先，祖宗
〔辨析〕
用在谱系或历史书中，强调带有父系或母系嫡系血缘关系，是比祖父母更早的家族成员，无性别之分，女性祖先则常用 ancestress。
〔例证〕
His ancestors came from France.
他的先祖来自法国。
My ancestors have lived on this farm for many generations.
我的祖先已在这个农场生活了好几代。
他的先祖来自法国。
My ancestors have lived on this farm for many generations.
我的祖先已在这个农场生活了好几代。
forefathern. （尤指男性的）祖先，祖宗
〔辨析〕
主要用于正式文体或文学作品，较少用于日常生活或历史书中。
〔例证〕
Our forefathers were the first to invent gunpowder.
我们的祖先最先发明了火药。
我们的祖先最先发明了火药。
progenitorn. 〈正式〉（人或动物的）祖先；先驱
〔辨析〕
不强调血缘关系，也不带家族或种族色彩，只强调遗传性；还可引申指某种观念等的创始者。
〔例证〕
You must do much better than your progenitors.
你一定要比你祖先做得更好。
He is a progenitor of cubism.
他是立体派的创始人。
你一定要比你祖先做得更好。
He is a progenitor of cubism.
他是立体派的创始人。
牛津词典
noun
- 祖先，祖宗（尤指男性）
a person (especially a man) in your family who lived a long time ago
柯林斯词典
- N-COUNT (尤指男性)祖先，先人
Yourforefathersare your ancestors, especially your male ancestors.- 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 were determined to go back to the land of their forefathers.
英英释义
noun
- the founder of a family
- keep the faith of our forefathers
- person from an earlier time who contributed to the tradition shared by some group
- our forefathers brought forth a great nation
双语例句
- We mine web page structure, fully utilize HTML mark and news feature on the basis of forefather's research, propose the thematic content extraction method based on division webpage.
我们在前人的研究基础上，挖掘Web页面结构特征、充分利用Html标记与新闻特征，重点从Web页面编者对文本修饰角度出发，提出了基于网页内容分割的主题内容抽取方法。 - They named it Dan after their forefather dan, who was born to israel& though the city used to be called laish.
照着他们始祖以色列之子但的名字，给那城起名叫但。原先那城名叫拉亿。 - Wasn't it my forefather of Sagittarius?
难道是我人马座的祖先吗？ - It is a well-fixed ground's time and investigated folk custom where the native people love the traditional culture left by forefather, thereby the tradition has a good survival space there.
这是一片已经富裕起来的土地，当地的人们热爱祖先留下来的传统文化，所以能够使得传统在这片土地上有较好的生存空间。 - It was said the forefather of the human being is ape.
据说人类的祖先是猿。 - In fact, the forefather of Chen rooted from Hugongman, so it was imaginable.
事实上南朝陈政权的祖先在很大程度上就是胡公满，因而他的祭祀合情合理。 - Rom.4:1 what then shall we say that Abraham our forefather according to the flesh has found?
罗四1这样，我们可说我们的祖宗亚伯拉罕照著肉体得了什么？ - The conspectus: across-the-board summarize and generalize forefather's research on the poesy and poetics theory of B.
导论，全面总结和概括了前人对巴·布林贝赫诗歌和诗学理论的研究情况。 - The forefather is Yiwu city biyang crystal artwork factory.
其前身是义乌市彼洋水晶工艺品厂。 - This paper integrates the western consumption theory to the special background of economy transition period, analyses the western consumption theory's suitability and feasibility in China, and draws the conclusion different from forefather's research.
本文正是基于经济转型期这个特殊背景，结合经济转型期的特点分析西方消费理论在研究我国居民消费行为过程中的适用性及可行性，得出了与前人研究不同的结论。