| 词汇 | forefathers |
| 释义 | forefathers plural noun us/ˈfɔrˌfɑð·ərz, ˈfoʊr-/ members of a family, national, or religious group who lived in the past: Mario is spending the summer in Italy, the land of his forefathers. Examples of forefathersforefathers The custom of praying for one's dead parents (as well as forefathers) was also pervasive in all the three cultures. The boasts are carried in the language of forefathers: they "liefer had died" than contemplate betrayal and change. A way which, if they could hear it, would make our forefathers sit bolt upright in their graves. The first is in its recidivism, which allows no space for the failures of his forefathers. The musics in which they participate may have been performed by their foremothers and forefathers. However, democratic accountability does not always work as forefathers envisioned. Yet, the same persons did not grant any importance to the name change their forefathers undertook some decades or centuries ago. The committee concluded that the ground in which one's forefathers rested should be treated with reverence by the living generation. In addition to these, he told me, he also uses the ' ancient wisdom of our forefathers ', including charms, incantations and others (interview, 8.7.2004). Similarly, within these ritualized events, the composers whose works are being performed are frequently taken as something akin to mythical forefathers. The migration of the forefathers is thus always present in the collective memory. Our forefathers sang it the whole year round; they lived with their songs. Why should these people be uprooted from their homes and the valleys which have been their homes and the homes of their forefathers for generations? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is what our forefathers thought was a remedy for the mischief. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These people are understandably anxious about their future: they are to be absorbed into the very system from which they or their forefathers fled. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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