forebear

美 [ˈfɔːrber]英 [ˈfɔːbeə(r)]
  • n.祖先;祖宗

复数: forebears

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noun

usually pl.祖先;祖宗
a person in your family who lived a long time ago

also forbear
ancestor

forebear

频次

  • 1
    N-COUNT 祖先;前辈
    Your forebears are your ancestors.

    I'll come back to the land of my forebears.

    我将回到祖先的土地上。

noun

1
a person from whom you are descended
Synonym: forbear

数据来源:WordNet

  1. " Ancestor : a person from whom one is descended , especially if more remote than a grandparent ; a forebear . "

    祖先:祖宗繁衍后代的人,特别是远于祖父辈;前辈

  2. Learning the tradition is to make the past serve the present , consider the thing that the forebear hadn 't thought of , and make the traditional essence sublimate in the modern design .

    因此,我们要学习传统,古为今用,发前人所未发,想前人所未想,让传统之精华在现代设计中得到升华。

  3. forebear Although Napoleon was Corsican , he is considered by most modern Frenchmen to have been French as their own forebears .

    n.祖先虽然拿破仑是科西嘉岛人,可是今日大多数的法国人仍认为他是他们的祖先法国人。

  4. Here we go : is it furlough , furbish , forebear , forlorn .

    开始!它是休假、改进、祖先还是孤苦伶仃的?

  5. This study refers to the hand-make design art pieces from the forebear 's wisdom and fable and convert the art design into fashion but obtains the meaning of the fable .

    而此研究设计里系利用前人的智慧与寓言里所诞生出的种种手工艺之原件将文化艺术流行化,但也不失其寓意。