英语释义

1. one from whom a person is descended and who is usually more remote in the line of descent than a grandparent
Her ancestors came to America in the 1880s.

2. forefather sense 2

3. forerunner, prototype
an exhibit of the ancestors of the modern computer

4. a progenitor (see progenitor sense 1b) of a more recent or existing species or group
the ancestor of the modern horse

5. a person who was in someone's family in past times one of the people from whom a person is descended

6. an animal in the past from which a modern animal developed

7. something in the past from which something else has developed

8. a person from whom someone is descended

9. something from which something else develops

10. a person from whom an individual is descended ascendant

11. a person from whom an estate descends — compare heir

12. one that precedes
ancestor in title

片语

ancestor worship祖先崇拜；祭祖；敬奉祖先

Animal Ancestors动物祖先

Invoke Ancestors先祖附体

Ancestors Legacy祖先遗产

ancestors s[生物] 祖先，上代；先祖（ancestor复数形式）

affluent ancestors小康之家

Mourning ancestors悼念祖先

ancestors forebears祖先

英汉例句

• whatever the reason, our ancestors began to copy sounds, skills and habits from one to another.

  无论出于什么原因，我们的祖先们开始互相的复制声音，技巧和习惯。

• he declared last month in an audio broadcast: 「i will never leave the land of my ancestors or the people who have sacrificed themselves for me.

  他上个月在一个音频广播里宣布：「我永远不会离开这片为我牺牲的人们还有我祖先的土地。」

• we owe everything to our prokaryotic ancestors and so it is not surprising that we continue to find prokaryotic systems in eukaryotes; in fact, it would be surprising if we did not.

  我们有的一切都属于我们原核生物的祖先，所以我们继续在真核生物中发现原核生物系统并不新鲜；实际上，如果我们没发现那才奇怪呢。

• they have suggested that the discovery indicates they are likely to be the ancestors of all land plants.

  他们说该项发现显示出这些苔类可能是所有陆地植物的祖先。

• the lake is now extinct, but our ancestors would have depended on the water and vegetation that grew around it.

  湖泊现在灭绝了，但是我们的祖先可能曾经依赖于湖水和湖周围生长的植被。

• if our early anthropoid ancestors had not succeeded in migrating from asia to africa, we simply wouldn't exist.

  假如我们早期的类人猿祖先没有成功地从亚洲迁移到非洲，我们就不可能存在。

• 「we cannot know for certain how fairly our ancestors in foraging bands behaved,」 but the findings 「bring us a closer understanding,」 she wrote.

  「我们不能肯定我们的祖先在觅食团体中的行为多么公平」，但这些发现「使我们能进一步了解，」她写道。

• 」as a consequence, these babies — who were our ancestors — would have been less likely to find themselves left at home or with strangers, 「 and theoretically less likely to be harmed, bering says.

  因此，我们的祖先就是这些能哭的婴儿 。他们不太容易被留在家中或与陌生人在一起，于是从理论上说，就不太可能受到伤害，」白令说。

• she is indeed a 「link」, not only with our own ancestors but with all the rest of the living world – indeed to all the creatures that have ever lived on this earth.

  她其实是一个「链环」，不仅联系着我们自己的祖先，也连接着蕓蕓众生里其他物种——实际上还联系着所有曾在地球上生存过的物种。

• whenever you pass by the field where you have laid your ancestors look well thereupon, and you shall see yourselves and your children dancing hand in hand.

  每当你们走过埋葬祖先的地方，请仔细观看，你们会看到你们自己和你们的孩子们手牵着手跳舞。

• the final complication here is that the alignment value might appear on the html or or or elements, so you have to check all of the ancestors until you find it.

  这里最后的复杂之处在于可能在html 、 、 或 元素上出现对齐值，因此必须检查所有的祖先元素直到找到该值为止。

• far back to 2000 years ago, the ancestors of chinese formed one of the greatest civilizations.

  2000年前，我们的祖先已经是这个世界上最重要的农业文明之一。

• the first thing is reflexive, unthinking — something your ancestors could have done in the wild: you grasp the hurt hand with the other one.

  你会做的第一件事同你的祖先在野外时做的一样——条件反射并下意识地用另外一只手抓住受伤那一只。

• why would you invent a myth of origins in which your ancestors are slaves?

  为什么要杜撰关于起源的神话,在这神话中，你的祖先却是奴隶？

• if i were to take that trip, i might have gone to ireland to discover that my irish ancestors were originally from scotland.

  如果是我从事那个旅程，我可能会去爱尔兰，在那里发现我的爱尔兰祖先是从苏格兰来的。

• the maya believed that their ancestors essentially came from corn, and they were formed of yellow and white maize dough.

  玛雅人认为他们祖先基本上是从玉米进化而来的，由黄玉米与白玉米面团做成的。

• our ancestors merely made use of their hands to change nature.

  我们的祖先只凭双手改造自然。

相似词

father发明，创立；当…的父亲

forefather祖先；前辈

grandfather不受新规定限制

primogenitor始祖；祖先

progenitor祖先；原着；起源