forefather
英 [ˈfɔːfɑːðə(r)]
美 [ˈfɔːrfɑːðər]
n. 祖先，祖宗(尤指男性)
复数：forefathers
BNC.20275 / COCA.18671
同义词辨析
ancestorforefatherprogenitor【导航词义：祖先】
ancestorn. 祖先，祖宗
〔辨析〕
用在谱系或历史书中，强调带有父系或母系嫡系血缘关系，是比祖父母更早的家族成员，无性别之分，女性祖先则常用 ancestress。
〔例证〕
His ancestors came from France.
他的先祖来自法国。
My ancestors have lived on this farm for many generations.
我的祖先已在这个农场生活了好几代。
他的先祖来自法国。
My ancestors have lived on this farm for many generations.
我的祖先已在这个农场生活了好几代。
forefathern. （尤指男性的）祖先，祖宗
〔辨析〕
主要用于正式文体或文学作品，较少用于日常生活或历史书中。
〔例证〕
Our forefathers were the first to invent gunpowder.
我们的祖先最先发明了火药。
我们的祖先最先发明了火药。
progenitorn. 〈正式〉（人或动物的）祖先；先驱
〔辨析〕
不强调血缘关系，也不带家族或种族色彩，只强调遗传性；还可引申指某种观念等的创始者。
〔例证〕
You must do much better than your progenitors.
你一定要比你祖先做得更好。
He is a progenitor of cubism.
他是立体派的创始人。
你一定要比你祖先做得更好。
He is a progenitor of cubism.
他是立体派的创始人。
牛津词典
noun
- 祖先，祖宗（尤指男性）
a person (especially a man) in your family who lived a long time ago
柯林斯词典
- N-COUNT (尤指男性)祖先，先人
Yourforefathersare your ancestors, especially your male ancestors.- They were determined to go back to the land of their forefathers.
他们决意回到祖先的土地上。
- They were determined to go back to the land of their forefathers.
英英释义
noun
- the founder of a family
- keep the faith of our forefathers
- 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
- They named it Dan after their forefather dan, who was born to israel& though the city used to be called laish.
照着他们始祖以色列之子但的名字，给那城起名叫但。原先那城名叫拉亿。 - The conspectus: across-the-board summarize and generalize forefather's research on the poesy and poetics theory of B.
导论，全面总结和概括了前人对巴·布林贝赫诗歌和诗学理论的研究情况。 - Based on forefather educators'theory, the dissertation mainly studies how to use the problem teaching method in middle school.
本文在借鉴前人的基础上，主要探讨在初中语文阅读教学中如何应用问题教学法。 - Like his forefather, Benny had the ability to foresee the future.
像他的祖先一样，本尼有能力预知将来。 - Mencius'is the theoretical forefather of the various peasant uprisings in Chinese history.
孟子是中国历代农民起义战争的理论始祖。 - We mine web page structure, fully utilize HTML mark and news feature on the basis of forefather's research, propose the thematic content extraction method based on division webpage.
我们在前人的研究基础上，挖掘Web页面结构特征、充分利用Html标记与新闻特征，重点从Web页面编者对文本修饰角度出发，提出了基于网页内容分割的主题内容抽取方法。 - In spite of all these problems we will not go back to lead the life our forefather led.
尽管有这些问题，我们也决不会再去过我们的祖先所过的生活。 - Let's start with Boaz, from the last paragraph of the book of Ruth, there is a family line that shows Boaz forefather is Perez.
我们先来看波阿斯，从最后一段的家谱中知道，他的先祖是法勒斯。 - Wasn't it my forefather of Sagittarius?
难道是我人马座的祖先吗？ - Fletcher was a famous American theologian and ethicist, who is regarded as the founder and the forefather of the bioethics in the20th century.
弗莱彻是美国20世纪著名的神学家、伦理学家，是生命伦理学的奠基人和先驱者。