forefather

noun

1. 祖先，祖宗（尤指男性）
   a person (especially a man) in your family who lived a long time ago

1. N-COUNT (尤指男性)祖先，先人
   Your forefathers are your ancestors, especially your male ancestors.
   1. They were determined to go back to the land of their forefathers.
      他们决意回到祖先的土地上。

1. They were determined to go back to the land of their forefathers.
   他们决意回到祖先的土地上。
2. 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。
3. 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。
4. The conspectus: across-the-board summarize and generalize forefather's research on the poesy and poetics theory of B.
   导论，全面总结和概括了前人对巴·布林贝赫诗歌和诗学理论的研究情况。
5. But unlike their forefather Abraham Lincoln, who set out to deliberately hurt some feelings, modern US presidents have taken extreme care not to offend any sensibilities with their Christmas message.
   当年，林肯的出发点是故意伤害一部分人的感情，现在的美国总统们不会这样做，他们非常小心谨慎，不希望自己的圣诞祝词会冒犯任何人。
6. 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。
7. 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。
8. 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。
9. It was said the forefather of the human being is ape.
   据说人类的祖先是猿。
10. 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？
11. 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。
12. Because of this, the life we are living now is more civilized and convenient than that of our forefather's.
    因为此，我们生存的生活才会比我们的祖先更加文明和方便。
13. In fact, the forefather of Chen rooted from Hugongman, so it was imaginable.
    事实上南朝陈政权的祖先在很大程度上就是胡公满，因而他的祭祀合情合理。
14. Rom.4:1 what then shall we say that Abraham our forefather according to the flesh has found?
    罗四1这样，我们可说我们的祖宗亚伯拉罕照著肉体得了什么？
15. As one of the representations of english empiricism and the forefather of modern experimental science, francis bacon's view of language always is neglected.
    培根是英国经验主义的代表人物和现代实验科学的奠基人。但是对他语言观的研究却一直被人们忽视。
16. 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？
17. Whatever happens, Tyrion and his twin, teclis, suffer under the curse of their forefather, brought down upon the family when Aenarion drew khaine's blade to fight the forces of chaos.
    不管怎样，泰瑞欧和他的双胞胎弟弟泰欧斯都要经历他们祖先的磨难，这是阿纳瑞欧挥动盖恩之剑与混乱力量战斗时带给家族的。
18. Mencius'is the theoretical forefather of the various peasant uprisings in Chinese history.
    孟子是中国历代农民起义战争的理论始祖。
19. The forefather is Yiwu city biyang crystal artwork factory.
    其前身是义乌市彼洋水晶工艺品厂。
20. Wasn't it my forefather of Sagittarius?
    难道是我人马座的祖先吗？
21. 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。
22. It is a well-fixed ground's time and investigated folk custom where the native people love the traditional culture left by forefather, thereby the tradition has a good survival space there.
    这是一片已经富裕起来的土地，当地的人们热爱祖先留下来的传统文化，所以能够使得传统在这片土地上有较好的生存空间。
23. 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。
24. 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。
25. John Locke is the forefather of the doctrine of western liberalism. His theory of liberty is embodied in his thought of Natural Law, Natural Right and Social Contract.
    洛克作为西方自由主义学说的始祖，其自由理论体现在他的自然法、自然权利、社会契约理论中。
26. 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。
27. 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。
28. We mine web page structure, fully utilize HTML mark and news feature on the basis of forefather's research, propose the thematic content extraction method based on division webpage.
    我们在前人的研究基础上，挖掘Web页面结构特征、充分利用Html标记与新闻特征，重点从Web页面编者对文本修饰角度出发，提出了基于网页内容分割的主题内容抽取方法。
29. 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。

  ancestor forefather progenitor【导航词义：祖先】

  ancestor n. 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。

  forefather n. （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。

  progenitor n. 〈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。

noun

1. the founder of a family
   1. keep the faith of our forefathers

   Synonym:    fathersire

2. person from an earlier time who contributed to the tradition shared by some group
   1. our forefathers brought forth a great nation