forebears

Even the bravest of your forebears kept his Kingsguard close about him in times of peril.

就算你祖先里最勇猛的人也知道危险的时候不离铁卫。

They sweep the graveyard. offer sacrifices. and burn spirit money to pay respects to their forebears.

他们清扫墓地. 献上祭品. 焚烧冥币.以表达对先人的敬意.

The dark past of their forebears threatens to stand in the way of the pair's love for one another.

然而他们父辈的阴暗过去却成了挡在他们爱情道路上的屏障。

All the rigid rule of his forebears, all the domination of an unjust social order, grip him.

父辈的严峻的法规，不公平的社会制度，把他牢牢地控制住了。

John F. Kennedy's forebears migrated to America from Ireland.

约翰·肯尼迪的祖先从爱尔兰移民到美国。

The new generation of wives and daughters may perhaps improve upon their male forebears.

新生代的妻子和女儿们也许在他们男性祖先的基础上有所改进。

Our female forebears instead evolved a new system: releasing eggs in a regular cycle.

我们的雌性祖先于是进化出了一种新机制：按照周期规律地排卵。

So how long have ago did our forebears start barbecuing?

那么我们的祖先是什么时候开始开始烹调食物？

Our success will do credit to our forebears and bring benefit to our posterity.

我们的成功将继承先贤，泽被后世。

Many of us conform to the outdated customs laid down by our forebears.

我们许多人都遵循祖先立下的过时习俗.

I'll come back to the land of my forebears.

我将回到祖先的土地上。

Modern auto factories hardly resemble their noisy, dirty, chaotic forebears of the previous century.

今天的汽车工厂不再像上世纪的先辈那样嘈杂脏乱。

An island once owned by his forebears;

曾被他的前辈占有的岛屿；

Though they still worked in the porcelain industry as their forefathers, their identity is quite different from that of their forebears.

虽然他们仍像祖辈那样以制瓷为业，但是却有着与祖辈不同的身份认同。

He rejected the religion of his forebears, leaving his own parents heartbroken.

他放弃了祖宗的宗教, 使他的双亲非常伤心.

The hope is that today's financial auctions and online marketplaces might work better by becoming more like their English and Dutch forebears.

今天的金融拍卖和网上市场如果能更多地模仿它们的英国和荷兰先祖生意也许就会更好。

So long as men remember the wrongs done to their forebears, no peace will ever last.

只要人们还记得先辈曾遭受的不幸，和平就不会持久。

But domestic cats' forebears join us in the skeletal record only about 9,500 years ago.

但骨骼化石记录表明，家猫的祖先迟至大约9500年前才进入人类社会。

My early forebears were simple farmers.

我早期的祖先们是淳朴的农民。

As Parliamentarians, you share with your forebears a fundamental role in the laws and decisions of your own age.

作为国会议员，你分享了你的祖先中的一个根本性法律。

When our forebears still lived in caves, the senses were essential survival tools.

我们的祖先生活在洞穴中的时候，感觉器官是他们最基本的生存工具。

Born in Japan to Koreanparents, An chose to compete for the land of his forebears, earning undyingadmiration there.

安昌林出生于日本，但父母均为韩国人，他选择代表祖国出战，为此在那里获得了无尽的尊崇。

But this washwoman, small and thin as she was, possessed a strength that came from generations of peasant forebears.

然而这个洗衣妇，虽然又瘦又小，却具有世代当庄稼汉的祖辈所传下来的一股力气。

I say immediate forebears, for we have lived only a few generations in Choy Hung.

不过我家住在那里，只有数代，我们的家庙，却在东江的一个龚公村里。

every one of your forebears on both sides has been attractive enough to find a mate,

你父母双方的哪个祖先都很有魅力，都能找到配偶，

They sweep the graveyard, offer sacrifices, and burn spirit money to pay respects to forebears.

他们清扫墓地 、 献上祭品 、 焚烧纸钱,以表达对先人的敬意.

Those in the Civil War tradition were Democrats because their forebears had supported secession and slavery.

那些保持内战传统的人成为民主党人,因为他们的祖辈支持脱离联邦和奴隶制.

It has been moulded by the thought of a hundred generations of our forebears.

它是长久以来我们历代先人的思想塑造出来的.

Consequently, they tend to have lesser interest in the cultural heritage of their forebears.

因此，他们一般上对先人的文化遗产不感兴趣。

They sweep the graveyard, offer sacrifices, and burn spirit money to pay respects to their forebears.

他们清扫墓地、献上祭品、焚烧纸钱，以表达对先人的敬意。