forerunners

英 [ˈfɔːˌrʌnəz]

美 [ˈfɔˌrʌnərz]

n.  先驱; 先行者; 预兆; 前兆
forerunner的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 先驱;先行者;预兆
  If you describe a person or thing as theforerunnerofsomeone or something similar, you mean they existed before them and either influenced their development or were a sign of what was going to happen.
  1. ...a machine which, in some respects, was the forerunner of the modern helicopter...
     在某些方面成为现代直升机前身的机器
  2. Some respiratory symptoms can be the forerunners of asthma.
     一些呼吸道症状可能是哮喘病的先兆。

双语例句

• They were the forerunners of the medieval serfs.
  他们是中世纪农奴的前辈。
• Based on the forerunners research, the author of this paper deems that Xiwangmu had the three categories: that is, the person who was present in history;
  本文在前人研究的基础上，论证西王母有三类：一是历史上确曾存在过的人；
• These primitive predators, though dinosaur-like in appearance, are actually considered the forerunners of mammals.
  这些原始的大鳄，虽然恐龙一样，在外观上，其实是考虑到先行者的哺乳动物。
• These are to be the forerunners for your new galactic society.
  对于你们这些新的银河成员，早就有了先行者。
• The revolutionary forerunners are immortal; their brilliant revolutionary deeds and noble qualities will forever be engraved on our memory.
  革命先烈永垂不朽，他们光辉的革命业绩和崇高的品质将永远铭刻在我们的记忆中。
• Little did they know that they were the forerunners for modern agriculture?
  他们并不知道自己是现代农业的先驱。
• Joyce also, before feminist forerunners, displays that gender is a matter of personal choice and social construction.
  早在女权主义先驱者之前，乔伊斯就指出性别是个人选择和社会形成的综合产物。
• He was one of the forerunners of Santa Claus.
  他是圣诞老人先行者的当中一个。
• These academies were the forerunners of the more famous ones founded later in england, france, Italy and germany.
  这些学院是以后英、法、意大利和德国的一些最有名的科学院的前身。
• Once the Finns settled, they may have erected underground sweat houses, forerunners of the savusauna.
  芬兰人定居以后，可能就建了地下发汗室，也就是传统的烟熏桑拿的前身。