our forefathers

Our forefathers built this wall to defend them-selves from invasion.

孙:我们的祖先筑这座长城是为了防御侵略的.

One can hardly imagine that, when our forefathers chose to carve a cave at Dunhuang 1,600 years ago, the site was a stretch of oasis with lush grass and trees north of the Great Wall.

谁都很难想象，一千六百年前，先民们在敦煌选址开窟时，这里曾经是一片草木扶疏的塞外绿洲。

We retrace the route our forefathers had taken.

我们不应重走我们祖先走过的老路.

Our forefathers once lived in caves.

我们的祖先曾在洞穴“居住”.

This is the place where our forefathers landed.

这是我们祖先登陆的地方.

Generation after generation, our forefathers worked hard and created a splendid culture on this land of ours.

在这块土地上，我们的祖先一代一代地辛勤劳动，创造出灿烂的文化。

What did our forefathers use for farming tools?

我们的祖先把什么当作农具使用？

But they, our forefathers, became arrogant and stiff-necked, and did not obey your commands.

但我们的列祖行事狂傲,硬着颈项不听从你的诫命.

This is our custom and our forefathers introduced this system.

这是我们的习惯和我们的先辈介绍了这一系统。

Our forefathers were the first to invent gunpowder.

我们的祖先最先发明了火药。

We have lost our faith in many of the things in which our forefathers fervently believed.

我们对自己的前辈们所笃信的许多事物丢失了信任.

We cannot forget our forefathers!

老祖宗不能丢 啊 !

Stories that came down to us from our forefathers.

祖祖辈辈传下来的故事。

Your method is against the domestic disciplines made by our forefathers.

你的这种做法是有悖于祖宗家法的.

It is the experience of our forefathers, however it is correct in many case even today.

这是我们老祖先的实践经验，但它在在今天很多时候任然适用。

We are now engaged in a great and most glorious cause, never undertaken by our forefathers.

我们正在做我们的前人从来没有做过的极其光荣伟大的事业.

Much of our forefathers'blood was shed, to exterminate these vermin.

我们祖先为了除掉这些害虫,血流成河.

If leg warmers could make a comeback, then so can the eco-friendly ways of our forefathers.

如果袜套能够卷土重来，那么我们祖先那种环保的生活方式也可以。

From the days of our forefathers until now, our guilt has been great.

7从我们列祖直到今日, 我们的罪恶甚重.

From ancient times our forefathers have laboured, lived and multiplied on this land.

自古以来,我们的祖先就劳动 、 生息、繁衍在这块土地上.

Our forefathers brought forth a great nation.

我们的祖先带来了一个伟大的民族。

Our forefathers have handed a rich national culture down to us.

我们的祖先给我们传下来丰富多彩的民族文化。

Our forefathers sacrificed their precious lives for the happy life of ours today.

我们的先辈们抛头颅,洒热血,就是为了我们今天的幸福生活.

We suffered from isolation , and so did our forefathers.

我们吃过这个苦头, 我们的老祖宗吃过这个苦头.

Our forefathers told us to rise and start sweeping at the very break of day.

古人告诉我们,在天刚亮的时候,就要起来打扫.

They are the most precious cultural legacy our forefathers left.

它们是我们祖先留下来的最宝贵的文化遗产.

Enough about our forefathers, let's learn about some revolutionary women!

受够了先父来国父去，我们该来了解那些革命的女人们！

These customs came down to us from our forefathers.

这些风俗是从祖辈传下来的.

Look down from heaven, your holy dwelling place, and bless your people Israel and the land you have given us as you promised on oath to our forefathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.

求你从天上，你的圣所垂看，赐福给你的百姓以色列与你所赐给我们的地，就是你向我们列祖起誓赐我们流奶与蜜之地。

In a particular kind of way, the Indian was our first displaced person. If you and I did not come from abroad ourselves, our forefathers did.

（从某种意义上讲，印第安人使我们的首批难民。）如果你我本身不是移民，我们的祖先便是。