forebears
祖先
常用释义
英式发音
美式发音
基本释义
- n. 祖先（forebear 的复数）
例句
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1·I'll come back to the land of my forebears.我将回到祖先的土地。来源: 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
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2·The Boskops coexisted with our Homo sapiens forebears.博斯·科普人曾与我们的智人祖先和平共处。
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3·And if we get our land back I want to rebuild my forebears' house.“如果能要回土地，我打算重新修建祖宗留下的房屋”。
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4·But these companies are very different creatures from their forebears.但是这些公司是与其祖先非常不同的产物。
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5·We have become extremely acquisitive in a way our forebears never were.我们变得极度的贪得无厌。而我们的先人们从不这样。
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6·The new generation of wives and daughters may perhaps improve upon their male forebears.新生代的妻子和女儿们也许在他们男性祖先的基础上有所改进。
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7·The dark past of their forebears threatens to stand in the way of the pair's love for one another.然而他们父辈的阴暗过去却成了挡在他们爱情道路上的屏障。
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8·He inherited some good instincts from his Quaker forebears, but by diligent hard work, he overcame them.他从贵格会教徒的祖先那里继承到了一些优秀品质，但是通过刻苦努力，他克服了这些优点。
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9·Scientists have found that modern-day people are about 10% smaller and shorter than their hunter-gatherer forebears.据英国《星期日泰晤士报》6月12日报道，科学家发现，与依靠捕猎和采集为生的祖先相比，现代人类的身材缩小了大约10%。
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10·They have proved no better defenders of the public interest than their forebears during the great crash of 1929.比起一九二九年大萧条时期他们的先祖来，他们已经被证明没有资格捍卫公众利益。
同义词
n.
祖先（forebear的复数）