forerunners
英 [ˈfɔːˌrʌnəz]
美 [ˈfɔˌrʌnərz]
n. 先驱; 先行者; 预兆; 前兆
forerunner的复数
柯林斯词典
- N-COUNT 先驱;先行者;预兆
If you describe a person or thing as theforerunnerofsomeone or something similar, you mean they existed before them and either influenced their development or were a sign of what was going to happen.- ...a machine which, in some respects, was the forerunner of the modern helicopter...
在某些方面成为现代直升机前身的机器 - Some respiratory symptoms can be the forerunners of asthma.
一些呼吸道症状可能是哮喘病的先兆。
- ...a machine which, in some respects, was the forerunner of the modern helicopter...
双语例句
- They were the forerunners of the medieval serfs.
他们是中世纪农奴的前辈。 - Edmund Spenser is one of the great forerunners of the poetic altar of the English Renaissance and is hailed as "the poets'poet".
埃德蒙·斯宾塞是文艺复兴时期英国诗坛的伟大先驱之一,享有“诗人之诗人”的美誉。 - Joyce also, before feminist forerunners, displays that gender is a matter of personal choice and social construction.
早在女权主义先驱者之前,乔伊斯就指出性别是个人选择和社会形成的综合产物。 - Tree shrews are believed to be forerunners of monkeys.
树据信为猴子的祖先。 - Some respiratory symptoms can be the forerunners of asthma.
一些呼吸道症状可能是哮喘病的先兆。 - A mature system must have some less mature forerunners. That had been the hypothesis for many years. In the past decade the hypothesis has been proved.
一种成熟的文字必有其前驱。这是多年的假说。过去10年的考古研究已证实这一假说。 - It was the first tale of time travel, and it is considered one of the forerunners of the science fiction genre.
这是第一次时间旅行的故事,它被认为是先行者的科幻小说流派。 - These are to be the forerunners for your new galactic society.
对于你们这些新的银河成员,早就有了先行者。 - Dissatisfied with the inadequate data of Vitruvius and their own Italian forerunners, they disregarded tradition in favour of an experience supported by the accurate observation of nature.
他们对维特鲁威以及他们意大利的前辈所有的不充分的数据很不满意,于是无视那种喜欢对自然准确观察而产生经验的传统。 - These academies were the forerunners of the more famous ones founded later in england, france, Italy and germany.
这些学院是以后英、法、意大利和德国的一些最有名的科学院的前身。