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

• He followed in the steps of forerunners and marched onward.
  他跟随着先辈的足迹前进。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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 forerunners of modern science were gradually discarding magical practices in favor of scientific experiment.
  近代科学的鼻祖们逐渐摒弃了各种不可思议的习俗，以利于科学实验的发展。
• Guided by the "great liberation of poetic style", the forerunners of free verse are resolved to draw a clear line with classical Chinese in order to make free verse as orthodox.
  在“诗体的大解放”旗帜引领下，白话诗的先驱们立志与古典诗歌“划清界限”，以使白话文取得正统地位。
• 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。
• Tree shrews are believed to be forerunners of monkeys.
  树据信为猴子的祖先。
• It is a correct way to absorb all the things done by your forerunners before you go forward.
  正确的道路是这样：吸取你的前辈所做的一切，然后再往前走。