The arming of Achilles is the forebear of gearing-up scenes ever since, from Chaucer to Rambo.

阿喀琉斯全副武装的情节成了从英国诗人乔叟到《第一滴血》等作品里披挂上阵场景的滥觞。

They are just better connected than their forebears—and have roamed much farther.

他们比父辈联系更加紧密，也逃得更远。

He was born in the Russian empire to a noble family, with admirals and princes among his forebears.

他在帝俄时期出生于一个贵族家庭，先祖中不乏海军元帅和王子。

Scientists have now made a digital 3D model of the lower limb muscles of our small brained ape-like forebear.

目前，科学家们用数字3D模型，制作出了我们脑袋较小的类人猿祖先的腿部肌肉。

But though they adapted, they maintained the warrior tradition and conquering spirit of their Viking forebears.

但是，尽管他们适应了环境，但他们仍然保持着维京祖先的战士传统和征服精神。

In about A.D. 105, an official in the imperial court produced the forebear of what has become today the world's most indispensable product.

在公元一百零五年左右，朝廷的一位官员制造出今日世上最不可或缺产品的前身。

Why didn't our forebears choose a more singable national anthem? Because they were waiting for the invention of the electric guitar.

为什么我们的祖先没有选一首更动听的国歌呢？因为他们在等待电吉他的发明。

Her forebears came down from the high country in western Montana nearly three centuries ago.

近三个世纪前，她的祖先来自蒙大拿州西部的高地。

Its technology would be to ours as ours is to the chipped flint of our forebears.

它的技术之于我们，就像我们的技术之于我们祖先的碎燧石一样。

Today people of faith in this country are generally better than their forebears at recognising the right of others to believe differently.

今天，这个国家有信仰的人们在认可他人有权持有不同信仰方面做得比祖先更好。