forefather

英式音标：[ˈfɔ:fɑ:ðə(r)]播放读音

美式音标：[ˈfɔrfɑðə(r)]播放读音

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概况：

n. 祖先；前辈

词义：

n.

祖先，祖宗；

变形

复数：forefathers

英英释义

forefather[ 'fɔ:,fɑ:ðə ]

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"

用法：

双语例句

用作名词(n.)

My forefather came to the USA 200 years ago.
我的祖先在两百年前来到美国。

Avenge the slain forefather by vanquishing Major Duke.
报复杀害的祖先主要由击败杜克。

权威例句

Forefather

The forefather (about Leonid Isaakovich Mandelstam)

Hippocrates: the forefather of neurology

The Forefather Needs No Fluids: Voodoo Death and Its Simulacra

W.E.B. Du Bois: Intellectual Forefather of Intersectionality?

[Ignaz Semmelweis--forefather of antisepsis (on the 180th anniversary of his birth)].

FROM THE HISTORY OF PHYSICS: The forefather (about Leonid Isaakovich Mandelstam)

Professor Antonio Branco Lefèvre: the forefather of child neurology in Brazil

"Have We Found Abraham to Be Our Forefather According to the Flesh?"A Reconsideration of Rom 4:1

New astronomy library in Bologna is named after Guido Horn D'Arturo: a forefather of modern telescopes

同义词：root,father

英语词源：

forefather (n.)

"ancestor," c. 1300, from fore- + father (n.); perhaps modeled on or modified from Old Norse forfaðir. Similar formation in Dutch voorvader, German Vorvater, Danish forfædre (Old English had forð-fæder).

造句：

1. An ancestor or a forefather.

祖宗或祖先

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 短句参考

2. A forefather;an ancestor.

祖宗；远祖

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 短句参考

3. A male ancestor;a forefather.

男性祖先；祖辈

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 短句参考

4. "Your first forefather sinned, And your spokesmen have transgressed against Me.

赛43:27你的始祖犯罪、你的师傅违背我。

-- 来源 -- 网友提供

5. What then shall we say that Abraham, our forefather, discovered in this matter?

绱怂道础⑽颐堑淖孀谘遣??薄⑵局?馓宓昧松貅崮亍

-- 来源 -- 网友提供

6. Beg like my forefather Agag before your sword?

向我的先祖阿盖格一样在你们的利剑前求饶?

-- 来源 -- 电影对白

7. forefather | progenitor | ancestor

祖先

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 翻译参考[网络]

8. They settled in Leshem and named it Dan after their forefather.

因为但人上去攻取利善，用刀击杀城中的人，得了那城，住在其中，以他们先祖但的名将利善改名为但。

-- 来源 -- space.christianbelief.net

9. Curios handed down from forefather

祖传古远

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 翻译样例 - 习语

10. In fact, the forefather of Chen rooted from Hugongman, so it was imaginable.

事实上南朝陈政权的祖先在很大程度上就是胡公满，因而他的祭祀合情合理。

-- 来源 -- 网友提供