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
- 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。 - 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。 - The forefather is Yiwu city biyang crystal artwork factory.
其前身是义乌市彼洋水晶工艺品厂。 - 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。 - They were determined to go back to the land of their forefathers.
他们决意回到祖先的土地上。 - It was said the forefather of the human being is ape.
据说人类的祖先是猿。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。