It is the humor of many people to extol the virtures of their forefathers.

很人普遍喜欢夸赞祖辈的美德。

This is a sceptical age, but although our faith in many of the things in which our forefathers fervently believed has weakened, our confidence in the curative properties of the bottle of medicine remains the same as theirs.

这是一个怀疑一切的时代，可是虽然我们对我们祖先笃信的许已不太相信，我们对瓶装药品疗效的信心仍与祖辈一样坚定。

The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

村里的粗鄙先辈在此安息。

And so, when you travel, you start to realize that most of the rules we learn as human beings are just societal structural ideas that have been imparted on us by our parents or our forefathers.

所以，当你旅行的时候，你开始意识到，我们作为人类所学的大部分规则只是我们的父母或祖先传授给我们的社会结构观念。

Celebration of independence, celebration of the people and our forefathers.

庆独立，庆人民和我们的祖先。

Because it reminded you of the way...our forefathers used to bitch at each other?

因为那让你想起我们的祖先… … 从前也是这样骂来骂去的？

32 Fill up, then, the measure of the sin of your forefathers!

32 你们去充满你们祖宗的恶贯吧。

They belonged to my parents and forefathers.

它们曾属于我的父母和祖辈。

This is our forefathers' legacy. This is our land. We have returned here for good.

这是我们祖先留下的遗产，这是我们的土地，我们将世世代代生活在这里。

He and his forefathers, going back five generations, have been feeding the hyenas by hand.

他和他的祖辈，连续五代人在喂食这些鬣狗时都直接用手。

Are people still willing to treat others with the same kindness their forefathers displayed?

现在的人们还会和他们的祖先一样善待陌生人吗？

This could be no more than a passing literary craze, but it also points to a broader truth about how we now approach the past: less concerned with learning from our forefathers and more interested in feeling their pain.

这种情况可能只不过是一时的文学热潮，但它同时也反映出现在我们如何研究历史的一种更普通的实：不那么关注从先辈处学习借鉴，而对感受他们的痛苦更感兴趣。

" During the time of our forefathers, we had big trees but sadly what we have now are just small trees and we don't even allow them to mature before we cut them, " Marigi said.

“在我们的祖先时代，我们有大树，但遗憾的是，我们现在只有小树，我们甚至不等它们长大就把它们砍了”。

Then Fancy her magical pinions spread wide, And bade the young dreamer in ecstasy rise; Now, far, far behind him the green waters glide, And the cot of his forefathers blesses his eyes.

幻想鸟儿，离家愈飞愈近，痴迷眺望，颤栗不住的心悸，海水哗哗，恍惚消退走远，叠涌闪现，家乡亲人的眼睛。

On an individual level, we can think of Charles Babbage, the forefather of the modern computer, whose machines were mechanically inspired by his experiences in the silk weaving industry.

在个人层面上, 我们可以想到查尔斯·巴贝奇, 现代计算机的先驱, 他的机器在机械上受到他在丝绸编织行业的经历的启发。

Well, that would be a very big stack, with me at the top and my fishy forefather all the way down at the bottom.

这打纸肯定高得不得了，我在上面，鱼祖宗在下面。

The old city walls have been recreated and throwing molten iron onto those ancient walls was where Mr. Xue's forefathers invented the art.

老城墙被复建起来了铁水就是被抛向这些老城墙正是薛先生的先祖创造了这项技艺。

Our forefathers observed that " When people are well-fed and well-clad, they will have a keen sense of honor and shame."

中国人很早就懂得“衣食足而知荣辱”。

Many residents and their forefathers immigrated here from North and sub-Saharan Africa. They were looking for better opportunities.

这里的很居民和祖先们从北非和撒哈拉南部非洲移民到这里，他们为寻找更好的机会而来。

15 You, however, shall join your forefathers in peace; you shall be buried at a contented old age.

15 至於你，你要享受高寿，以後平安回到你列祖那里，被人埋葬。