forefather
n. 祖先,祖宗
Your forefathers are 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。
1. the founder of a family;
2. person from an earlier time who contributed to the tradition shared by some group;
These are the customs of forefather hand down to us.
你带外教看过婚俗表演,你说,这都是先辈传给你们的习俗.
What we are doing today is something never dreamed of by our forefather.
我们今天正在做的是我们祖先所不敢想的.
What then shall we say that Abraham, our forefather, discovered in this matter?
2倘若亚伯拉罕是因行为称义,就有可夸的;只是在神面前并无可夸.
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 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.