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
- 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。 - In the reign of King John one of them was rich enough to give a manor to the Knights Hospitallers; and in Edward the Second's time your forefather Brian was summoned to Westminster to attend the great Council there.
在约翰王时代，他们的分支中有一支很富有，曾给救护骑士团赠送了一份采地；在爱德华二世时代，你的祖先布里恩也应召到威斯敏斯特参加过大议会。 - John Locke is the forefather of the doctrine of western liberalism. His theory of liberty is embodied in his thought of Natural Law, Natural Right and Social Contract.
洛克作为西方自由主义学说的始祖，其自由理论体现在他的自然法、自然权利、社会契约理论中。 - 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。 - Rom.4:1 what then shall we say that Abraham our forefather according to the flesh has found?
罗四1这样，我们可说我们的祖宗亚伯拉罕照著肉体得了什么？ - Your God is one and your forefather is one.
你的真主只有一位，你的祖先只有一位。 - 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。 - 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。 - The forefather is Yiwu city biyang crystal artwork factory.
其前身是义乌市彼洋水晶工艺品厂。 - As one of the representations of english empiricism and the forefather of modern experimental science, francis bacon's view of language always is neglected.
培根是英国经验主义的代表人物和现代实验科学的奠基人。但是对他语言观的研究却一直被人们忽视。