forefathers
英 ['fɔ:] 美 ['fɔ]

n.

祖先；祖宗（ forefather的名词复数 ）；

英英释义

forefather[ 'fɔr,fɑðɚ ]

• n.
  • the founder of a family

    "keep the faith of our forefathers"

    同义词：fathersire

  • 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

用作名词(n.)

1. One of his forefathers emigrated to Australia.
   他的一位祖先移居澳洲。
2. Our forefathers once lived in caves.
   我们的祖先曾在洞穴居住。

权威例句

Forefathers of the MMT
Forefathers of Memetics: Gabriel Tarde and the Laws of Imitation
Faith of Our Forefathers: Religion and the Founding of the American Republic.
Funerals, Family, and Forefathers: A View of Italian-American Funeral Practices.
Academic amnesia and vestigial assumptions of our forefathers
Harvey Cushing and Oskar Hirsch: early forefathers of modern transsphenoidal surgery.
Laryngoscopy and laryngoscopes--who's first?: the forefathers/four fathers of laryngology.
The Bread of Our Forefathers: an Inquiry in Economic History. By Sir William Ashley. (Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1928. Pp. xii, 206. 1...
Y-chromosomal diversity suggests that Baltic males share common Finno-Ugric-speaking forefathers
Can hemolytic streptococci be considered "forefathers"of modern phagocytes? Both cell types freely migrate in tissues and destroy h...