ancestors是什么意思？

ancestors

英['ænsestəz] 美['ænsestəz]

• n. 祖先( ancestor的名词复数 )，祖宗，原型，（动物的）原种；

例句

• This is the dust of our ancestors. 这是我们祖先的遗骸。
• There are many statuaries of our ancestors and Kings in the museums. 在博物馆里,有许多我们祖先和先王的雕像.
• In recasting, the experiences of all ancestors are cancelled out founded upon extreme opposites. 在重铸中, 所有祖先的经历将根据相对极性被彼此中和取消.
• Their ancestors had branched out from Haiti, overrunning Cuba, Jamaica, and the Bahamas. 他们的祖先从海地繁衍分枝, 发展到古巴 、 牙买加和巴哈马群岛.
• No nation omits to record the actions of their ancestors, however bloody, savage and rapacious. 每个民族都不会消除他们祖先的历史记录,不论他们祖先的行为多么血腥, 野蛮和贪婪.
• Misters are no fun to live with, but they make great ancestors. 与吝啬鬼生活毫无乐趣, 但他们却为后人称道不已.
• All humans will have the ancestors therefore associated with their original 25 birth lineages. 故而,所有人类都将拥有和最初25条血统所相关的祖先们.
• The monuments of men's ancestors were the most impressive exhortations. 先辈们的丰碑最能奋勉人心的.
• Our ancient ancestors were often generous in deeming things alive. 我们古老的祖先常常善意地认为物质都是有生命的.
• We know that some of man's close ancestors predated the Pleistocene. 我们知道,有些人类近缘祖先出现于更新世之前.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• N-COUNT
  祖宗;祖先
  Your ancestors are the people from whom you are descended.
  例句
  ...our daily lives, so different from those of our ancestors... 与我们祖先的生活有着天壤之别的我们的日常生活 He could trace his ancestors back seven hundred years. 他的先祖可以上溯到700年前。
• N-COUNT
  原种；原型
  An ancestor of something modern is an earlier thing from which it developed.
  例句
  The direct ancestor of the modern cat was the Kaffir cat of ancient Egypt... 现代猫的直系原种是古埃及的卡菲尔猫。 The immediate ancestor of rock 'n' roll is rhythm-and-blues. 摇滚乐直接源自节奏布鲁斯。