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
- 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。 - This paper attempts to study the old man of the wilderness in American literature so as to reveal the American national cultural psychology in constructing the image of their forefather and thus establishing their own identity.
本文通过对美国文学中荒野老人形象的研究，试图揭示美利坚民族建构父亲形象、确立自我身份的民族文化心理。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - This paper integrates the western consumption theory to the special background of economy transition period, analyses the western consumption theory's suitability and feasibility in China, and draws the conclusion different from forefather's research.
本文正是基于经济转型期这个特殊背景，结合经济转型期的特点分析西方消费理论在研究我国居民消费行为过程中的适用性及可行性，得出了与前人研究不同的结论。 - 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。 - Boy, it's marvelous. I prefer Neijia to Waijia. Well, who's the forefather of Neijia then?
哇，内家功夫真是神了，我喜欢。谁是它的开山鼻祖？ - 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。 - Leibniz was an inventor of the calculus and a forefather of modern mathematical logic.
莱布尼茨是一个发明家的演算以及祖先的现代数理逻辑。