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庭，先祖中不乏海军元帅和王子。

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

什么我们的祖先没有选一首更动听的国歌呢？因他们在等待电吉他的发明。

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。

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。

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。

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，那因这个国欢迎我们祖先的到来，并让他们知道成国人，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，因他的许多祖先穿这样的斗篷不仅了取暖，而了装饰。

" 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争斗过近两百年。不得到您，他决不会回去。"

I have reached your country, therefore, with no misgivings, but with my belief that the American people are building and carrying out a true pattern of the Nation conceived by your forebears, strengthened and confirmed.

因之故，余此次抵达国，不特衷心毫无惴虑，而具有一种信心，即国人民正在建立与实施一种确系其祖先所怀抱之立国典型。此种信心，益见加强而证实。

" 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。"

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 .

这我们较聪明的，较冷静的先人用来喂猪而不喂人 的方法。越多越好而越快越好，根本没有质量的标准。

" The old ones" . When Ser Bartimus grinned, he looked just like a skull. " Me and mine were here before the Manderlys. Like as not, my own forebears strung those entrails through the tree" .

" 我自个儿信仰旧神。" 巴提穆斯爵士笑起来活像具骷髅，" 我们比曼德勒来得早，很可能我的祖先曾亲手把那些肠子挂在树上。"

" I have forebears buried beneath the rocks of Cairns" . He looked at the map again. " Give him Honeytree and its hives. All that sweet will make him fat and rot his teeth" .

" 我的先人就埋在石冢村的墓园里。" 他又仔细看了看地图。" 给他蜂蜜树村和所有的蜂房好了。但愿蜂蜜烂穿他的牙齿，让他胖得走不动路。"

Harnack's niece, Jane Donner, saw to it that the story was handed down to her own granddaughter, Rebecca Donner - who has produced a compelling portrait of her forebear's courage, along with that of her German husband Arvid and their comrades.

哈纳克的侄女简·唐纳将这个故事传给了她自己的孙女丽贝卡·唐纳。丽贝卡·唐纳生动地描绘了她的先辈哈纳克和她的德国丈夫阿维德以及他们的同伴们的勇气。