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.
他們決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.
你帶外教看過婚俗表演,你說,這都是先輩傳給你們的習俗.
What we are doing today is something never dreamed of by our forefather.
我們今天正在做的是我們祖先所不敢想的.
What then shall we say that Abraham, our forefather, discovered in this matter?
2倘若亞伯拉罕是因行為稱義,就有可誇的;只是在神面前並無可誇.
Like his forefather, Benny had the ability to foresee the future.
像他的祖先一樣, 本尼有能力預知將來.
In fact, the forefather of Chen rooted from Hugongman, so it was imaginable.
事實上南朝陳政權的祖先在很大程度上就是胡公滿, 因而他的祭祀合情合理.