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

• The laws of our forefathers.
  我们祖先订下的法律。
• Methods as old as our forefathers;
  象祖辈一样的陈旧方法；
• Our forefathers have handed a rich national culture down to us.
  我们的祖先给我们传下来丰富多彩的民族文化。
• I have always said, and our forefathers told us this, that the greatest threat to the people is always government.
  我曾一直在说，而我们的前辈们告诉我们这个，对人民最大的威胁永远是政府。
• 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。
• This is the place where our forefathers landed.
  这是我们祖先登陆的地方。
• We didn't betray the forefathers.
  我们没有背叛我们的祖先。
• Our forefathers brought forth a great nation.
  我们的祖先带来了一个伟大的民族。
• He went to visit the graves of his forefathers.
  他去拜谒他祖先的墓地。