forebears

In June, when the rice is sown, he sings for farmers in their fields, as he says his forebears have done "for a thousand generations" .

今年六月，稻子播种时，他为田里的农民唱歌，因为他说，他的祖先已做了“一千代”了。

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。

Now Chinese collectors are beginning to acquire them as homage to the sophistication and commercial acumen of their forebears.

而时至今日，中国收藏家正开始收购这些瓷器，以向先辈们的智慧与商业眼光致敬。

As I backed out of the river water, I wondered what my forebears would have though if they had had to put up with so many silly laws.

我从河水中退出去的时候想，假如祖先们必须忍受那么多愚蠢的法律，不知道他们做何感想。

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。

It is a "spring" festival, and it is an occasion for the whole family to leave the home and to sweep the graves of their forebears.

这是一个“春”艺术节，这是一个机会，全家人离开家，并横扫其祖先的坟墓。

Another awkward area for him is Kenya, the land of his own forebears.

另一个棘手的地区就是他的祖先之地肯尼亚。

So professional footballers seem to recreate the intense emotions in some fans that tribal warfare aroused in their forebears.

所以，职业足球选手似乎能对一些球迷再现当年部落战争对他们的祖先所产生的那种紧张情绪。

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。

If your forebears coherently discussed the Middle East situation at 7 a. m. , you're likely to feel sharp before the sun comes up, too.

如果您的祖先一直是上午7点开始讨论中东问题的，那么，您可能也会在日出之前感到神清气爽。

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。

Our forebears must have done the right thing to have handed us the legacy of life.

我们的祖先一定也是如此，并把这珍贵的遗产留给了我们。

Tver was chosen because it is the land of Mr Putin's forebears, but similar "voluntary" demonstrations have been staged all over Russia.

选择Tver是因为这里是普京先辈们的土地，但是类似“志愿”的示威游行出现在整个俄罗斯。

Electronic calendar users ( "normal people, " my husband calls them) can be dismissive of their paper forebears.

电子日历的使用者（“正常人”，我丈夫这样称呼他们）对其纸质祖先不予理会。

The Roman Republic was the intelligent beneficiary of monetary accidents which befell so many of its forebears.

对于发生在很多祖先身上的货币事件来说，罗马共和国无疑是聪明的受益者。

Acanthostega took pride of place as the missing link between terrestrial vertebrates and their aquatic forebears .

要扮演陆域脊椎动物与水生祖先之间「失落的环节」，棘螈当之无愧。

They have proved no better defenders of the public interest than their forebears during the great crash of 1929.

比起一九二九年大萧条时期他们的先祖来，他们已经被证明没有资格捍卫公众利益。

Or was this her sense of starting from nothing, with no female forebears?

还是这代表她在没有女性先驱的情况下从一无所有开始的感觉？

This is hardly surprising because most of them do not maintain or have access to, genealogical records beyond their immediate forebears.

其实这也没什么稀奇的，因为他们大多没有留下任何家谱记录，甚至没有家谱可查阅，比直系亲属更上一代的祖先恐怕已经追溯不到了。

Their forebears were small-time professionals, provincial lawyers, factors or land agents, a surgeon, a chaplain, even an archbishop.

祖先或是三流的专家、地方律师、代理商，或是房地产商、外科医生、专职教士，甚至大主教。