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.
  1. ...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
  2. 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。

双语例句

• 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。
• 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。
• The alchemists were the forerunners of the scientists of today.
  炼金术士是今日科学家的先驱。
• 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。
• Warm rains are the forerunners of spring.
  暖雨是春天来临的前兆。
• Once the Finns settled, they may have erected underground sweat houses, forerunners of the savusauna.
  芬兰人定居以后，可能就建了地下发汗室，也就是传统的烟熏桑拿的前身。
• The revolutionary forerunners are immortal; their brilliant revolutionary deeds and noble qualities will forever be engraved on our memory.
  革命先烈永垂不朽，他们光辉的革命业绩和崇高的品质将永远铭刻在我们的记忆中。
• He followed in the steps of forerunners and marched onward.
  他跟随着先辈的足迹前进。
• Abraham, he declared, and Jesus Christ were his forerunners.
  他宣布，亚伯拉罕和耶稣基督是他的先驱。
• 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。