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

• 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。
• 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。
• Our forefathers brought forth a great nation.
  我们的祖先带来了一个伟大的民族。
• Our forefathers once lived in caves.
  我们的祖先曾在洞穴居住。
• We didn't betray the forefathers.
  我们没有背叛我们的祖先。
• 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。
• Methods as old as our forefathers;
  象祖辈一样的陈旧方法；
• This is the place where our forefathers landed.
  这是我们祖先登陆的地方。
• 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。
• He went to visit the graves of his forefathers.
  他去拜谒他祖先的墓地。