Our ancestral selves miss the natural world and long for contact with non-human life.
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柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义
ADJ
祖先的;祖传的
You use ancestral to refer to a person's family in former times, especially when the family is important and has property or land which they have had for a long time.
例句
...the family's ancestral home in southern Germany.这个家族在德国南部的祖居...the ancestral portraits in the hallway.走廊里祖先的画像
英汉词典释义
adj.
祖先的,祖宗传下来的
ancestral home老家;祖籍Imperial Ancestral Temple太庙
英英词典释义
Adjective
1. inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent;