柯林斯詞典progenitor /pr???d??n?t?/ (progenitors) 1. N-COUNT A progenitor of someone is a direct ancestor of theirs. 祖先[正式] [usu with poss] He was also a progenitor of seven presidents of Nicaragua. 他也是尼加拉瓜七位總統(tǒng)的祖先。2. N-COUNT The progenitor of an idea or invention is the person who first thought of it. 先驅; 創(chuàng)始人[正式] [usu with poss] ...Clive Sinclair, the progenitor of the C5 electric car. ...C5電動汽車的創(chuàng)始人克萊夫·辛克萊爾。 返回 progenitor劍橋詞典a person who first thinks of something and causes it to happen 先驅，前輩 Marx was the progenitor of communism . 馬克思是共產主義的創(chuàng)始人。 返回 progenitor