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.

他们比父辈联紧密，也逃得远。

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，这个国家有的人们在认可他人有权持有不方面做得比祖先好。

Meanwhile, viewers who (surveys suggest) themselves have less sex than their forebears are also offered fewer racy scenes on ranches and in rivers.

与此时，对于那些（调查显示）比祖先性生活少的观众，在牧场和河流中发生的色情场面也会少。

The law the government is eagerly enforcing requires all residents to prove that they or their forebears were in the state by March 24th 1971.

政府正在积极执行的法律要求所有居民在1971年3月24日前证明他们或他们的祖先合法生活在该州。

" Dornishmen are notoriously stubborn, Your Grace. Prince Quentyn's forebears fought your own for the better part of two hundred years. He will not go without you" .

" 多恩人的固执举世闻名，陛下。昆廷王子的祖先曾和您的家族争斗过近两百年。不得到您，他决不会回去。"

One possible reason for this youth's sagacity could lie in the cultural shift away from these behaviours – something they can thank their forebears for.

这个年轻人睿智的一个可能原因可能在于文化上远离了这些行为——这是他们可以感谢他们的祖先的。

We are only here because this country welcomed our forebears, and taught them that being American is about more than what we look like or where we come from.

我们今天站在这里，那是因为这个国家欢迎我们祖先的到来，并让他们知道成为美国人，你的长相，你的来历并不重要。

It swept the ground, but Esteban, small as he was, wore it gracefully, for many of his forebears had worn such cloaks not only for warmth, but for adornment.

披风扫过地面，埃斯特班虽然很小，但穿着很优雅，因为他的许多祖先穿这样的斗篷不仅是为了取暖，而且是为了装饰。

Now that generally fits with predictions, but having a bona fide confirmation would show us we're really on the right track in understanding our stellar forebears.

这与预测基本吻合，但有了确凿的证明，我们就会发现，在了解我们的恒星祖先方面，我们真的走在了正确的道路上。

It is the way our wiser and calmer forebears fed, not people, but hogs: as much as possible and as fast as possible, with no standard of quality.

这是我们明智、冷静的祖先喂养猪的方式，不是喂人，而是喂猪：尽可能多、尽可能快，没有质量标准。

" His forebears are as dead as mine. Will Hizdahr raise their shades to defend Meereen against its enemies? I need a man with ships and swords. You offer me ancestors" .

" 他的祖先和我的祖先都早已作古。西茨达拉能召唤他祖先的灵魂出来帮弥林抗敌么？我需要船只和士兵，你却给我一堆祖先。"

So if I went back in time and killed one of my forebears, then a new branch universe would begin where that whole line of descendents, including me, never existed.

因此，如果我回到过去并杀死了我的一个祖先，那么一个新的分支宇宙就会开始，在那里，包括我在内的整个后代都不存在。