forefather

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forefather 是什么意思

中文释义

n. 祖先

英文释义

n. the founder of a family

n. person from an earlier time who contributed to the tradition shared by some group

forefather 的真实例句

以下例句摘自真实英文文章，看看 forefather 在自然语境里怎么用：

Turkish historiography’s embrace of the “inheritance of bloodstained caftans / heirlooms of our forefathers” has troubled them.

—— The Turkish novelist Leylâ Erbil was an autodidact and outcast who liked being mad, bad, and sad in a nation of pious Kemalists

We today have more free time available than our forefathers dared to dream of.

—— Erich Fromm on the Key to Sanity

The two forefathers of quantum theory charged at each other armed only with gedankenexperiments , or thought experiments, as they didn’t have the technology to realise them in the lab.

—— How a century-long argument over light’s true nature came to an end

Saint Augustine, the forefather of Leo’s religious order, wrote that it is the peculiar fate of the faithful to live in two worlds at once: the City of God and the City of Man.

—— Why Silicon Valley Is Turning to the Catholic Church

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