forefathers

英 [ˈfɔːˌfɑːðəz] 美 [ˈfɔrˌfɑðərz]

n.  祖先，祖宗(尤指男性)
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  1. N-COUNT (尤指男性)祖先，先人
    Your forefathers are 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。
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  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。
  2. We are now engaged in a great and most glorious cause, never undertaken by our forefathers.
    我们正在做我们的前人从来没有做过的极其光荣伟大的事业。
  3. From ancient times our forefathers have laboured, lived and multiplied on this land.
    自古以来，我们的祖先就劳动、生息、繁衍在这块土地上。
  4. Generation after generation, our forefathers worked hard and created a splendid culture on this land of ours.
    在这块土地上，我们的祖先一代一代地辛勤劳动，创造出灿烂的文化。
  5. As I walked along the river towards the ford, I thought about my forefathers.
    我一边沿着河边朝浅滩走去，一边想我的祖先们。
  6. Your forefathers ate manna and died, but he who feeds on this bread will live forever.
    吃这粮的人，就永远活着，不像你们的祖宗吃过吗哪还是死了。
  7. As my forefathers planted these for me, so I too plant these for my children.
    既然我的祖先为我栽树，我也该为我的孩子们栽些树呀。
  8. Our forefathers once lived in caves.
    我们的祖先曾在洞穴居住。
  9. In modern society, still there are great number of Chinese men follow their forefathers.
    到了现代社会，还是有为数不少的中国男人继承着老祖宗的“遗志”。
  10. The laws of our forefathers.
    我们祖先订下的法律。
  11. This is the place where our forefathers landed.
    这是我们祖先登陆的地方。
  12. We didn't betray the forefathers.
    我们没有背叛我们的祖先。
  13. We forefathers would never have come had your mother not called.
    你妈要是不呼招的话，我们这些列祖列宗们是不会在这里的。
  14. 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。
  15. They are the most precious cultural legacy our forefathers left.
    它们是我们祖先留下来的最宝贵的文化遗产。
  16. Don't walk in your forefathers 'footprints; Seek what they sought.
    不要走先人的足迹，要寻找他们所要寻找的。
  17. Methods as old as our forefathers;
    象祖辈一样的陈旧方法；
  18. He was deeply interested in them because they are the forefathers of man.
    他对它们深感兴趣，因为它们是人类的祖先。
  19. They retain the religion of their forefathers. I have never questioned that.
    他们保留着祖辈的信仰，我从未怀疑过。
  20. He went to visit the graves of his forefathers.
    他去拜谒他祖先的墓地。
  21. What we are doing today is something never dreamed of by our forefathers.
    今天我们正做的是我们的前人做梦都未想过的。
  22. 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。
  23. You want to know where you came from, who your parents, who your forefathers were.
    你想知道你来自哪里，谁你的父母，谁是你的祖先。
  24. What we have now was built from the imagination of our forefathers.
    我们所有的一切都是建立在前人想像的基础上。
  25. We have lost our faith in many of the things in which our forefathers fervently believed.
    我们对自己的前辈们所笃信的许多事物丢失了信任。
  26. Our forefathers brought forth a great nation.
    我们的祖先带来了一个伟大的民族。
  27. 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。
  28. It is true I am Shawnee. My forefathers were warriors. Their son is a warrior.
    确实，我是萧尼族人，我的祖先都是战士。他们的子孙也是战士。
  29. In their fear your forefathers gathered you too near together.
    出于恐惧，你们的祖先将你们聚得过近。
  30. This is our custom and our forefathers introduced this system.
    这是我们的习惯和我们的先辈介绍了这一系统。
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