英['fɔːbeə(r)]美['fɔːrber]
记忆方法
词源词根法
fore-，在前。be，存在。-ar，后缀，人。即先辈，祖先。fore-在forehead前额、forearm前臂和before等中都有出现，多用来指时间和空间上的前，与希腊拉丁前缀pro-和pre-等同源。而-bear部分则一不是指熊，二不是指bear动词承担；忍受等，而是be-的施动者名词，也就是说，forebear的字面意思是“one who was before”。
noun(名词)
双解例句
noun(名词)
小知识
Your father, grandmother, and great grandfather are all your forebears. A forebear is an ancestor, or someone you are descended from.
You might have thought that forebear means to stop yourself from doing something. The word you are thinking of is forbear. Confused? The “e” makes all of the difference here. Whereas the first is a noun, the second is a verb. Just remember that if you see fore like in before, it's the people who came before you.