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
- Tree shrews are believed to be forerunners of monkeys.
树据信为猴子的祖先。 - Therefore no one will disappear, except perhaps for a few forerunners who are necessary to clear the path for the rest to follow.
因此没有人会消失，除非有可能一些必要的先驱者需要清除路径好让他人跟随。 - 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。 - They were the forerunners of the medieval serfs.
他们是中世纪农奴的前辈。 - Little did they know that they were the forerunners for modern agriculture?
他们并不知道自己是现代农业的先驱。 - 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。 - These forerunners of tabloid newspapers carried colorful reports of bloody crimes, robbery and public executions. They were extremely popular.
作为通俗小报的先驱者，他们报道血腥犯罪、暴力抢劫和公共处决等各色新闻，极其受欢迎。 - He was one of the forerunners of Santa Claus.
他是圣诞老人先行者的当中一个。 - Warm rains are the forerunners of spring.
暖雨是春天来临的前兆。 - These primitive predators, though dinosaur-like in appearance, are actually considered the forerunners of mammals.
这些原始的大鳄，虽然恐龙一样，在外观上，其实是考虑到先行者的哺乳动物。