forerunners
英 [ˈfɔːˌrʌnəz]
美 [ˈfɔˌrʌnərz]
n. 先驱; 先行者; 预兆; 前兆
forerunner的复数
柯林斯词典
- N-COUNT 先驱;先行者;预兆
If you describe a person or thing as theforerunnerofsomeone or something similar, you mean they existed before them and either influenced their development or were a sign of what was going to happen.- ...a machine which, in some respects, was the forerunner of the modern helicopter...
在某些方面成为现代直升机前身的机器 - Some respiratory symptoms can be the forerunners of asthma.
一些呼吸道症状可能是哮喘病的先兆。
- ...a machine which, in some respects, was the forerunner of the modern helicopter...
双语例句
- Both Mr Tsang and Mr Tang are tipped as forerunners in the race for the next chief executive.
曾荫权和唐英年都被视为下届特首的热门人选。 - Grey hair has appeared in your sideburns, but you still look young in my eyes because you always keep abreast in the sea of wisdom with the forerunners of the day.
岁月的白发虽然爬上了您的两鬓，在我看来您却永远年轻，因为，在智慧的大海里，您始终与时代的先行者并驾齐驱。 - Lively said of her hair's popularity, though she had an inkling: fashion forerunners like Vogue staffers routinely approach her at events and fixate on her hair, she said.
但她说她也发现了端倪：像《时尚》里的流行先驱们都会有意无意接近她，注意她的头发。 - He was one of the forerunners of Santa Claus.
他是圣诞老人先行者的当中一个。 - Little did they know that they were the forerunners for modern agriculture?
他们并不知道自己是现代农业的先驱。 - The revolutionary forerunners are immortal; their brilliant revolutionary deeds and noble qualities will forever be engraved on our memory.
革命先烈永垂不朽，他们光辉的革命业绩和崇高的品质将永远铭刻在我们的记忆中。 - Joyce also, before feminist forerunners, displays that gender is a matter of personal choice and social construction.
早在女权主义先驱者之前，乔伊斯就指出性别是个人选择和社会形成的综合产物。 - These primitive predators, though dinosaur-like in appearance, are actually considered the forerunners of mammals.
这些原始的大鳄，虽然恐龙一样，在外观上，其实是考虑到先行者的哺乳动物。 - Warm rains are the forerunners of spring.
暖雨是春天来临的前兆。 - Edmund Spenser is one of the great forerunners of the poetic altar of the English Renaissance and is hailed as "the poets'poet".
埃德蒙·斯宾塞是文艺复兴时期英国诗坛的伟大先驱之一，享有“诗人之诗人”的美誉。