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

我将回到祖先的土地。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

2·The Boskops coexisted with our Homo sapiens forebears.

博斯·科普人曾与我们的智人祖先和平共处。

3·And if we get our land back I want to rebuild my forebears' house.

“如果能要回土地，我打算重新修建祖宗留下的房屋”。

4·But these companies are very different creatures from their forebears.

但是这些公司是与其祖先非常不同的产物。

5·We have become extremely acquisitive in a way our forebears never were.

我们变得极度的贪得无厌。而我们的先人们从不这样。

6·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。

7·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。

8·He inherited some good instincts from his Quaker forebears, but by diligent hard work, he overcame them.

他从贵格会教徒的祖先那里继承到了一些优秀品质，但是通过刻苦努力，他克服了这些优点。

9·Scientists have found that modern-day people are about 10% smaller and shorter than their hunter-gatherer forebears.

据英国《星期日泰晤士报》6月12日报道，科学家发现，与依靠捕猎和采集为生的祖先相比，现代人类的身材缩小了大约10%。

10·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。

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1·Two centuries ago, our forebears would have known the precise history and source of almost every one of the limited number of things they ate and owned.

两个世纪以前，我们的祖先可能会已经知道了他们食用的和拥有的几乎所有有限的东西的历史和来源。

2·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。

3·Productivity gains and cheap imports mean that we can and do enjoy far more farm and factory goods than our forebears, with much less effort.

生产力的提高和便宜的进口货意味着我们可以花费更少的力气，却比自己的祖先享受更多的农业和工业商品。

4·There, I would explain why the dinosaurs disappeared and how mankind evolved from our primitive forebears. She seemed rapt.

在哪里，我给她讲述为什么恐龙会灭绝和人类是如何从原始祖先进化来的，她似乎听的全神贯注。

5·The idea that the forebears of modern humans could talk would scupper the notion that language was the force that created modern human culture—otherwise, why would they not have built civilisations?

现代人的祖先能够讲话的观点可能会颠覆语言是建立现代人类文明的力量的观念——然而，为什么他们没有建立文明？