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

• Tree shrews are believed to be forerunners of monkeys.
  树据信为猴子的祖先。
• Lively said of her hair's popularity, though she had an inkling: fashion forerunners like Vogue staffers routinely approach her at events and fixate on her hair, she said.
  但她说她也发现了端倪：像《时尚》里的流行先驱们都会有意无意接近她，注意她的头发。
• 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 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Based on the forerunners research, the author of this paper deems that Xiwangmu had the three categories: that is, the person who was present in history;
  本文在前人研究的基础上，论证西王母有三类：一是历史上确曾存在过的人；
• 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。
• The alchemists were the forerunners of the scientists of today.
  炼金术士是今日科学家的先驱。
• 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。