forebears
美 [?f?r?ber] 
英 [?f??(r)be?(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，稻子播種時，他為田里的農民唱歌，因為他說，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險的時候不離鐵衛。
Now Chinese collectors are beginning to acquire them as homage to the sophistication and commercial acumen of their forebears.
而時至今日，中國收藏家正開始收購這些瓷器，以向先輩們的智慧與商業眼光致敬。
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.
我從河水中退出去的時候想，假如祖先們必須忍受那么多愚蠢的法律，不知道他們做何感想。
But this washwoman, small and thin as she was, possessed a strength that came from generations of peasant forebears.
然而這個洗衣婦，雖然又瘦又小，卻具有世代當莊稼漢的祖輩所傳下來的一股力氣。
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.
這是一個“春”藝術節，這是一個機會，全家人離開家，并橫掃其祖先的墳墓。
Another awkward area for him is Kenya, the land of his own forebears.
另一個棘手的地區就是他的祖先之地肯尼亞。
So professional footballers seem to recreate the intense emotions in some fans that tribal warfare aroused in their forebears.
所以，職業足球選手似乎能對一些球迷再現當年部落戰爭對他們的祖先所產生的那種緊張情緒。
As Parliamentarians, you share with your forebears a fundamental role in the laws and decisions of your own age.
作為國會議員，你分享了你的祖先中的一個根本性法律。
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點開始討論中東問題的，那么，您可能也會在日出之前感到神清氣爽。
All the rigid rule of his forebears, all the domination of an unjust social order, grip him.
父輩的嚴峻的法規，不公平的社會制度，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.
我們的祖先一定也是如此，并把這珍貴的遺產留給了我們。
Tver was chosen because it is the land of Mr Putin's forebears, but similar "voluntary" demonstrations have been staged all over Russia.
選擇Tver是因為這里是普京先輩們的土地，但是類似“志愿”的示威游行出現在整個俄羅斯。
Electronic calendar users ( "normal people, " my husband calls them) can be dismissive of their paper forebears.
電子日歷的使用者（“正常人”，我丈夫這樣稱呼他們）對其紙質祖先不予理會。
The Roman Republic was the intelligent beneficiary of monetary accidents which befell so many of its forebears.
對于發生在很多祖先身上的貨幣事件來說，羅馬共和國無疑是聰明的受益者。
Acanthostega took pride of place as the missing link between terrestrial vertebrates and their aquatic forebears .
要扮演陸域脊椎動物與水生祖先之間「失落的環節」，棘螈當之無愧。
They have proved no better defenders of the public interest than their forebears during the great crash of 1929.
比起一九二九年大蕭條時期他們的先祖來，他們已經被證明沒有資格捍衛公眾利益。
Or was this her sense of starting from nothing, with no female forebears?
還是這代表她在沒有女性先驅的情況下從一無所有開始的感覺？
This is hardly surprising because most of them do not maintain or have access to, genealogical records beyond their immediate forebears.
其實這也沒什么稀奇的，因為他們大多沒有留下任何家譜記錄，甚至沒有家譜可查閱，比直系親屬更上一代的祖先恐怕已經追溯不到了。
Their forebears were small-time professionals, provincial lawyers, factors or land agents, a surgeon, a chaplain, even an archbishop.
祖先或是三流的專家、地方律師、代理商，或是房地產商、外科醫生、專職教士，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.
不過，貴族能夠激發人們古老的本能。如今，許多現代意大利人看待貝盧斯科尼的方式就像他們的祖先看待專制貴族一般。
For I have sworn before you and Almighty God the same solemn oath our forebears prescribed nearly a century and three-quarters ago.
因為我已在你們和全能的上帝面前，作了跟我們祖先將近一又四分之三世紀以前所擬定的相同的莊嚴誓言。
Our forebears did the heavy lifting to put our economy on top of the world.
祖先們曾竭盡心力，將這個經濟體推上世界之巔。
Some wonder whether Nicky and his son Jonathan have the same drive and acumen as their swashbuckling forebears.
有人懷疑尼克和他的兒子喬納森（Jonathan）是否有他們會營造聲勢的祖先那樣的驅動力和智慧。
He was born in the Russian empire to a noble family, with admiral s and princes among his forebears.
他在帝俄時期出生于一個貴族家庭，先祖中不乏海軍元帥和王子。
When, eventually, they retire will be on pensions far lower in real terms than those of their immediate forebears.
到后來，他們退休后所領的退休金實質上遠遠比上一代的更低。
We have become extremely acquisitive in a way our forebears never were.
我們變得極度的貪得無厭。而我們的先人們從不這樣。
There, I would explain why the dinosaurs disappeared and how mankind evolved from our primitive forebears. She seemed rapt.
在哪里，我給她講述為什么恐龍會滅絕和人類是如何從原始祖先進化來的，她似乎聽的全神貫注。
For millennia the Illuminati and their forebears have adversely impacted every aspect of life on Earth.
億萬年來光照派和他們的祖先已經有害的影響到了地球上的每個生活面向。
Phillips wanted to create an inviting space to celebrate living artists and their aesthetic forebears.
菲利普想創造出一個吸引人的場所來贊美那些在世的藝術家和他們的美學前輩們。
When, eventually, they retire it will be on pensions far lower in real terms than those of their immediate forebears.
最終，他們退休的時候拿到的退休金將比他們的祖先低的多
Americans born in the 1880s, as the country's industrial revolution gathered pace, were both richer and shorter than their forebears.
19世紀80年代，在本國發生工業革命時出生的美國人比他們的祖輩更富有，卻更矮。
Our hunter-gatherer forebears were tall, lean long-distance runners who subsisted on plants and protein.
我們的祖先靠打獵和采集植物果實為生，攝取其中的養份和蛋白質，因此他們身材修長，擅長長途奔跑。
Armenians say the mass extermination of their forebears was genocide.
亞美尼亞國內聲稱對他們先輩的屠戮是一次種族滅絕。
The new generation of wives and daughters may perhaps improve upon their male forebears.
新時期的妻子和女兒們也許能改善她們男性祖先的政治狀況。
This reflects the wider public mood: we don't have our forebears' patience for politics.
這反映了廣大公眾的情緒：我們沒有我們前輩們對政治的耐心。
With the advent of farming, our forebears had to develop tools.
隨著耕作的出現，我們的祖先不得不發明工具。
It aims to glorify and to instil Pride in their ancestors and to exhort the future generations to emulate their illustrious forebears.
其目的更是要褒揚祖宗，使后代引以為榮，代代效法。
they sweep the graveyard , offer sacrifices , and burn spirit money to pay respects to their forebears.
他們清掃墓地、獻上祭品、焚燒紙錢，以表達對先人的敬意。
As Mr Shomali recalls, his forebears literally provided images of Ruth and Boaz for Western pilgrims.
如Shomali先生回憶，他的祖先為西方的朝圣者提供了Ruth與Boaz的確實形象。
