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
- They were determined to go back to the land of their forefathers.
他们决意回到祖先的土地上。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - It was said the forefather of the human being is ape.
据说人类的祖先是猿。 - 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。 - Fletcher was a famous American theologian and ethicist, who is regarded as the founder and the forefather of the bioethics in the20th century.
弗莱彻是美国20世纪著名的神学家、伦理学家，是生命伦理学的奠基人和先驱者。 - Beg like my forefather Agag before your sword?
向我的先祖阿盖格一样在你们的利剑前求饶？ - John Donne is highly reputed as the forefather of the seventeenth century metaphysical school in England.
约翰·邓恩（JohnDonne）被誉为17世纪英国玄学诗派的鼻祖。