Forefather
['fɔːfɑːðə] or ['fɔr'fɑðɚ]
解释:
(noun.) the founder of a family; 'keep the faith of our forefathers'.
(noun.) person from an earlier time who contributed to the tradition shared by some group; 'our forefathers brought forth a great nation'.
布兰卡德录入--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) One who precedes another in the line of genealogy in any degree, but usually in a remote degree; an ancestor.
校对:罗杰
同义词及近义词：
n. Progenitor, ancestor, father, foregoer.
录入:里基
例句:
- I will be your host in Greece, and will entertain you in my ruined abode,—misnamed a palace,—which is all that remains to me of my forefathers. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- It is the humor of many heads to extol the days of their forefathers, and declaim against the wickedness of times present. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- It was nothing to her, that an innocent man was to die for the sins of his forefathers; she saw, not him, but them. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
- Various answers are made--a decline in religion, a decline from the virtues of the Roman forefathers, Greek intellectual poison, and the like. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- The blood of my forefathers cries aloud in my veins, and bids me be first among my countrymen. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- They take their forefathers with enormous solemnity. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- Your French forefathers don't speak so sweetly, nor so solemnly, nor so impressively as your English ancestors, Robert. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
录入:弗农