forebears
美 [ˈfɔrˌber] 
英 [ˈfɔː(r)beə(r)]
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In June, when the rice is sown, he sings for farmers in their fields, as he says his forebears have done "for a thousand generations" .
今年六月，稻子播种时，他为田里的农民唱歌，因为他说，他的祖先已做了“一千代”了。
Even the bravest of your forebears kept his Kingsguard close about him in times of peril.
就算你祖先里最勇猛的人也知道危险的时候不离铁卫。
Now Chinese collectors are beginning to acquire them as homage to the sophistication and commercial acumen of their forebears.
而时至今日，中国收藏家正开始收购这些瓷器，以向先辈们的智慧与商业眼光致敬。
As I backed out of the river water, I wondered what my forebears would have though if they had had to put up with so many silly laws.
我从河水中退出去的时候想，假如祖先们必须忍受那么多愚蠢的法律，不知道他们做何感想。
But this washwoman, small and thin as she was, possessed a strength that came from generations of peasant forebears.
然而这个洗衣妇，虽然又瘦又小，却具有世代当庄稼汉的祖辈所传下来的一股力气。
It is a "spring" festival, and it is an occasion for the whole family to leave the home and to sweep the graves of their forebears.
这是一个“春”艺术节，这是一个机会，全家人离开家，并横扫其祖先的坟墓。
Another awkward area for him is Kenya, the land of his own forebears.
另一个棘手的地区就是他的祖先之地肯尼亚。
So professional footballers seem to recreate the intense emotions in some fans that tribal warfare aroused in their forebears.
所以，职业足球选手似乎能对一些球迷再现当年部落战争对他们的祖先所产生的那种紧张情绪。
As Parliamentarians, you share with your forebears a fundamental role in the laws and decisions of your own age.
作为国会议员，你分享了你的祖先中的一个根本性法律。
If your forebears coherently discussed the Middle East situation at 7 a. m. , you're likely to feel sharp before the sun comes up, too.
如果您的祖先一直是上午7点开始讨论中东问题的，那么，您可能也会在日出之前感到神清气爽。
All the rigid rule of his forebears, all the domination of an unjust social order, grip him.
父辈的严峻的法规，不公平的社会制度，把他牢牢地控制住了。
Our forebears must have done the right thing to have handed us the legacy of life.
我们的祖先一定也是如此，并把这珍贵的遗产留给了我们。
Tver was chosen because it is the land of Mr Putin's forebears, but similar "voluntary" demonstrations have been staged all over Russia.
选择Tver是因为这里是普京先辈们的土地，但是类似“志愿”的示威游行出现在整个俄罗斯。
Electronic calendar users ( "normal people, " my husband calls them) can be dismissive of their paper forebears.
电子日历的使用者（“正常人”，我丈夫这样称呼他们）对其纸质祖先不予理会。
The Roman Republic was the intelligent beneficiary of monetary accidents which befell so many of its forebears.
对于发生在很多祖先身上的货币事件来说，罗马共和国无疑是聪明的受益者。
Acanthostega took pride of place as the missing link between terrestrial vertebrates and their aquatic forebears .
要扮演陆域脊椎动物与水生祖先之间「失落的环节」，棘螈当之无愧。
They have proved no better defenders of the public interest than their forebears during the great crash of 1929.
比起一九二九年大萧条时期他们的先祖来，他们已经被证明没有资格捍卫公众利益。
Or was this her sense of starting from nothing, with no female forebears?
还是这代表她在没有女性先驱的情况下从一无所有开始的感觉？
This is hardly surprising because most of them do not maintain or have access to, genealogical records beyond their immediate forebears.
其实这也没什么稀奇的，因为他们大多没有留下任何家谱记录，甚至没有家谱可查阅，比直系亲属更上一代的祖先恐怕已经追溯不到了。
Their forebears were small-time professionals, provincial lawyers, factors or land agents, a surgeon, a chaplain, even an archbishop.
祖先或是三流的专家、地方律师、代理商，或是房地产商、外科医生、专职教士，甚至大主教。
But a Signoria stirs ancient instincts, and many modern Italians see Mr. Berlusconi much as their forebears saw absolute lordships.
不过，贵族能够激发人们古老的本能。如今，许多现代意大利人看待贝卢斯科尼的方式就像他们的祖先看待专制贵族一般。
For I have sworn before you and Almighty God the same solemn oath our forebears prescribed nearly a century and three-quarters ago.
因为我已在你们和全能的上帝面前，作了跟我们祖先将近一又四分之三世纪以前所拟定的相同的庄严誓言。
Our forebears did the heavy lifting to put our economy on top of the world.
祖先们曾竭尽心力，将这个经济体推上世界之巅。
Some wonder whether Nicky and his son Jonathan have the same drive and acumen as their swashbuckling forebears.
有人怀疑尼克和他的儿子乔纳森（Jonathan）是否有他们会营造声势的祖先那样的驱动力和智慧。
He was born in the Russian empire to a noble family, with admiral s and princes among his forebears.
他在帝俄时期出生于一个贵族家庭，先祖中不乏海军元帅和王子。
When, eventually, they retire will be on pensions far lower in real terms than those of their immediate forebears.
到后来，他们退休后所领的退休金实质上远远比上一代的更低。
We have become extremely acquisitive in a way our forebears never were.
我们变得极度的贪得无厌。而我们的先人们从不这样。
There, I would explain why the dinosaurs disappeared and how mankind evolved from our primitive forebears. She seemed rapt.
在哪里，我给她讲述为什么恐龙会灭绝和人类是如何从原始祖先进化来的，她似乎听的全神贯注。
For millennia the Illuminati and their forebears have adversely impacted every aspect of life on Earth.
亿万年来光照派和他们的祖先已经有害的影响到了地球上的每个生活面向。
Phillips wanted to create an inviting space to celebrate living artists and their aesthetic forebears.
菲利普想创造出一个吸引人的场所来赞美那些在世的艺术家和他们的美学前辈们。
When, eventually, they retire it will be on pensions far lower in real terms than those of their immediate forebears.
最终，他们退休的时候拿到的退休金将比他们的祖先低的多
Americans born in the 1880s, as the country's industrial revolution gathered pace, were both richer and shorter than their forebears.
19世纪80年代，在本国发生工业革命时出生的美国人比他们的祖辈更富有，却更矮。
Our hunter-gatherer forebears were tall, lean long-distance runners who subsisted on plants and protein.
我们的祖先靠打猎和采集植物果实为生，摄取其中的养份和蛋白质，因此他们身材修长，擅长长途奔跑。
Armenians say the mass extermination of their forebears was genocide.
亚美尼亚国内声称对他们先辈的屠戮是一次种族灭绝。
The new generation of wives and daughters may perhaps improve upon their male forebears.
新时期的妻子和女儿们也许能改善她们男性祖先的政治状况。
This reflects the wider public mood: we don't have our forebears' patience for politics.
这反映了广大公众的情绪：我们没有我们前辈们对政治的耐心。
With the advent of farming, our forebears had to develop tools.
随着耕作的出现，我们的祖先不得不发明工具。
It aims to glorify and to instil Pride in their ancestors and to exhort the future generations to emulate their illustrious forebears.
其目的更是要褒扬祖宗，使后代引以为荣，代代效法。
they sweep the graveyard , offer sacrifices , and burn spirit money to pay respects to their forebears.
他们清扫墓地、献上祭品、焚烧纸钱，以表达对先人的敬意。
As Mr Shomali recalls, his forebears literally provided images of Ruth and Boaz for Western pilgrims.
如Shomali先生回忆，他的祖先为西方的朝圣者提供了Ruth与Boaz的确实形象。
