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柯林斯词典

同根词

词根：ancestry

• adj.

  ancestral 祖先的；祖传的

• n.

  ancestry 祖先；血统

  ancestress 女性祖先；女性被继承人

同近义词

• n.始祖，[生物]祖先；被继承人

  father   /   root   /   grandfather

同义词辨析

ancestor forefather progenitor 【导航词义：祖先】

ancestor n. 祖先，祖宗

例1: His ancestors came from France.

他的先祖来自法国。

例2: My ancestors have lived on this farm for many generations.

我的祖先已在这个农场生活了好几代。

forefather n. （尤指男性的）祖先，祖宗

例1: Our forefathers were the first to invent gunpowder.

我们的祖先最先发明了火药。

progenitor n. [正式] （人或动物的）祖先；先驱

例1: You must do much better than your progenitors.

你一定要比你祖先做得更好。

例2: He is a progenitor of cubism.

他是立体派的创始人。

词组短语

1. ancestor node 先辈节点 ; 原始节点 ; 计 祖先节点

2. Select Ancestor 选择当前物体的父物体

3. common ancestor 共同祖先 ; 共同的祖先

4. ancestor element 祖先元素 ; 上级元素 ; 上阶项目

5. Hall of Ancestor 念祖厅

6. wild ancestor 野生原种

7. of the Ancestor 人之 ; 祖宗之

8. ancestor worship 祖先崇拜；祭祖；敬奉祖先

9. Ancestor Stone 祖先之石 ; 祖传宝石 ; 家传宝石

权威例句

1. This ancestor screamed and pounded the walls, and no one came.

这一祖先嘶叫并捶击墙壁, 而没有人前来.《期刊摘选》

2. The bone structure of our ancestors developed for millions of years to support a creature that walked on all fours and has a relatively small head ．

我们祖先的骨骼结构发展了数百万年,用来支撑一种四肢行走、头部相对较小的生物。《高考真题- 2019 江苏 任务型阅读》

3. They share a more recent ancestor with Drosera sundews, which can also curl their leaves over their prey.

它们与毛毡苔有着更近代的祖先，毛毡苔也可以将树叶卷起来盖住猎物。

4. Celebration, relatives, event, tradition, custom, ancestor, flavor, frosting.

庆祝，亲戚，事件，传统，风俗习惯，祖宗，风味，糖霜。

5. Her Chinese friends referred to the Empress as their venerable ancestor.

她的中国朋友们说这位女皇是他们值得敬仰的祖先。《柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典》

6. Frankly6, our ancestors don't seem much to brag7 about.

坦白说，我们的祖先似乎没有多少好自夸的。

7. Diplomacy was in his blood: his ancestors had been feudal lords

他天生擅长交际：他的祖先曾是封建领主。《柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典》

8. ...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《柯林斯高阶英语词典》

9. Many species have diverged from a single ancestor.

许多物种都是同宗演变而来的。《牛津词典》

10. 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。《柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典》

11. Normally have large altar on the tomb could be that people worship ancestors, the local deity.

祭坛上一般都有大墓,可能是人们祭祀先祖 、 天神的地方.《期刊摘选》

12. It may help you when you become an ancestor yourself.

等你做了长辈,说不定有点用处.《辞典例句》

13. This method tells you all information you need to know: whether one node is descendant of an ancestor of the other, whether it is before or after, and so on.

这个方法告诉您所有想知道的信息：一个节点是否是另一个节点的祖先的后代，它是在前面还是后面呢，等等。

14. Inheritance tax is levied on the properties which were left behind when ancestor died.

遗产税是对被继承人死亡时所遗留的财产课征的一种税.《期刊摘选》

15. Trace back to １７ th century, they joined in the same ancestor, Robert Spencer , second Earl of Sunderland, Knight.

追溯到17世纪, 他们的共同先祖是罗伯特·斯潘塞爵士(森德兰伯爵二世).《期刊摘选》

16. May my ancestors watch over me!

愿我的祖先注视着我!《期刊摘选》

17. From a detailed analysis of the salamanders' family tree, however, it is clear that the other lineages evolved from an ancestor that itself had lost the ability to metamorphose.

然而，通过对蝾螈族谱的详细分析，我们可以清楚地看到，其他谱系分支是从一个本身已经失去了变形的能力的祖先演化而来的。

18. My ancestors stole land from the Indian.

我的祖先从印第安人手里夺取了土地.《辞典例句》

19. My ancestors have lived on this farm for many generations.

我的祖先已在这个农场生活了好几代。《外研社英语同义词辨析词典》

20. There are two main groups of bats, which are believed to have evolved independently of each other, but both from a common ancestor.

蝙蝠主要有两大类，人们认为它们是各自独立进化的，但都来自同一个祖先。

21. He, along with the Yan Emperor (Yandi), is considered to be the ancestor of all Chinese people.

他和炎帝被认为是所有中国人的祖先。

22. As one opens the tapestry, a hoard of ancestors will arrive in the nonphysical.

当织锦被打开时, 一群祖先就将在非物质层上来到你的身边.《期刊摘选》

23. Your ancestors are Chinese people at home care, the social disharmony is the first slaughter you!

你家老祖宗都是中国老百姓养地, 社会不和谐第一宰杀就是你!《期刊摘选》

24. The class from which you derive a component is called its immediate ancestor.

你所创建的组件的祖先类被称为ImmediateAncestor(直接祖先).《期刊摘选》

25. Man was evolved from an ancestor that was probably arboreal.

人大概是从住在树上的祖先进化而来的.《简明英汉词典》

26. He was welsh, with the dark, stormy good looks of his ancestors.

他是威尔士人，有着他祖先那种暗黑和粗犷健美的外貌。

27. The knocker is oblong in shape, and of the kind our ancestors called "jaquemart".

铁锤是长方形的，像古时的钟锤。

28. 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.《辞典例句》

29. He may have had Semitic, perhaps Phoenician, ancestors.

他可能是闪米特人的, 也许他的祖先是腓尼基人.《期刊摘选》

30. Local Lisu people consider them their ancestors, calling them the wild men of the mountains.

当地的傈僳族人就把它们当作自己的祖先, 并把它们称为:“山中野老”.《期刊摘选》

31. His ancestors had come to America from Ireland.

他的祖先从爱尔兰来到美国。《牛津词典》

32. Our ancestors merely made use of their hands to change nature.

我们的祖先只凭双手改造自然.《现代汉英综合大词典》

33. In fact, it is now believed that murlocs ( or, more appropriately, their ancestors ) even date trolls.

事实上, 现在世人们认为鱼人 ( 或者更恰当的说法, 鱼人们的先祖 ) 是巨魔变化而来的.《期刊摘选》

34. Northup has many descendants, who gathered together in Saratoga Springs on July 24, 1999, for a tribute to their ancestor.

诺瑟普有很多后代，1999年7月24日，他们聚集在萨拉托加斯普林斯，向他们的祖先致敬。

35. The immediate ancestor of rock 'n' roll is rhythm-and-blues.

摇滚乐直接源自节奏布鲁斯。《柯林斯高阶英语词典》

36. This acquisition of foreign genes is generally referred to as horizontal gene transfer anan ancestor.

外源基因的这个获得过程通常被称为水平基因转移.《期刊摘选》

37. During the festival the investor investigated his ancestor.

节日期间投资者调查了他的祖宗.《期刊摘选》

38. I have avenged my ancestors.

我已为我的祖先报了仇。

39. a reptile that was the common ancestor of lizards and turtles

作为蜥蜴和龟的共同原种的一种爬行动物《牛津词典》

40. Nine-year-old Jimmy was given a task in school to write a story on "My family's ancestors".

九岁的吉米在学校接到一个任务,写一篇关于"我家族的祖先"的故事。《中考真题- 2017 河南 短文填空》

41. The ancestor of the modern bicycle is called a penny farthing.

现代自行车的原型叫做‘前轮大后轮小的自行车’.《期刊摘选》

42. This machine is the ancestor of the modern computer.

这台机器是现代电脑的始祖.《简明英汉词典》

43. Clearly, his achievement of uniting all species under a common ancestor outraged millions, and still does.

显然, 他把所有物种统一到一个共同祖先的成就激怒了数以百万计的人, 现在依然如故.《期刊摘选》

44. When other people told him that the house was the one that his ancestors had lived in, his tears went down.

当别人告诉他这房子是他祖先居住的房子，他就泪下纵横。

45. Look to many of history's cultural symbols, and there you'll find an ancestor of Frosty, the snowman in the movie Frozen.

看看历史上许多的文化符号，你会在那里找到《冰雪奇缘》中弗罗斯特的祖先。

46. It might tell you something about their ancestors from centuries ago!

它可能会告诉你一些几个世纪前他们祖先的事情！《中考真题- 2015 沈阳 短文填空》

47. There's the whole idea—we've already given you some sense that the Greeks were ancestor worshippers.

这就是整个观点——我们已经给了你们古希腊人对祖先甚是尊敬的感觉。

48. Parts of these thoughtforms are hereditary ( passed down from your very first ancestors to you ).

这些思想形态是遗传的 ( 由你们最初的祖先传给你们 ).《期刊摘选》

49. She has worshiped her ancestor.

她已拜过她的祖先。

50. He could trace his ancestors back seven hundred years.

他的先祖可以上溯到700年前。《辞典例句》

51. He wished death upon himself , but he knew his disgrace would be taken among the ancestors.

他真想一死了事, 可是他知道自己蒙受的羞耻会辱没祖宗.《辞典例句》

52. 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。《柯林斯高阶英语词典》

53. There have been many points of the original place of Qing earliest ancestor tribe.

清始祖部落集团发祥地,向有多说.《期刊摘选》

54. The common detailed design found among the pinnipeds probably indicates a common ancestor.

在鳍足类动物中发现的共同的细节设计，这可能说明了它们有一个共同的祖先。

55. Apes are the ancestors of human beings.

猩猩是人类的祖先.《期刊摘选》

56. Rather than merely a sign, it is the root from which we can trace back to our ancestor, the tie that helps bind us to other members of the same clan, the dignity most people hope to live for.

它不仅仅是一种标志，更是我们可以追溯到祖先的根源，是将我们与同族其他成员联系在一起的纽带，是大多数人希望为之而活的尊严。

57. I cannot change the poor, but I never have the right to choose do the ancestors.

我不能改变做穷人的后代, 但是我绝对有权利选择做富人的祖先.《期刊摘选》

58. Direct descent from a particular ancestor; ancestry.

血统；血情；源自于同一祖宗或父母血统。

59. Since they believe themselves to be descended from that ancestor, it would be like eating that ancestor or eating themselves.

因为他们相信自己是那个祖先的后裔，这就像吃那个祖先或吃自己一样。

60. The third point is the story about ancestors of Canton closes to local people's life.

最贴近广州人,讲本土老祖宗的故事.《期刊摘选》

61. It is believed that the massive, cyclopean gronn are the ancient ancestors of the ogres.

一直有种说法认为体形巨大而独眼的加隆为食人魔的先祖.《期刊摘选》

62. It suggested that all living things were related, from the beetle to the lotus, and that everything descended ultimately from a single common ancestor.

它表明所有的生物都是相关的，从甲虫到莲花，所有的生物都是由一个共同的祖先进化而来。

63. 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.《期刊摘选》

64. WORKING WITH ONE'S ANCESTORS TO ASCEND.

和祖先们一起工作来提升.《期刊摘选》

65. Does your character have a notorious or celebrated ancestor?

你拥有一个万世流芳或者遗臭万年的祖先 吗 ?《期刊摘选》

66. Hawthorn for medicinal, our ancestors had knowledge of ancient books of accounts have more.

对于山楂的药用, 我们的祖先早有认识,古书中也有较多的记述.《期刊摘选》

67. The custom has come down to us from our ancestors.

这一习俗是从祖辈相传下来的。

68. Ancestors come in many forms.

祖先会以众多角色前来.《期刊摘选》

69. We can say today that this university is a direct ancestor of the platonic republic of Plato's Academy.

我们现今可以说，这间大学的直系祖先是柏拉图学院的柏拉图式共和国。

70. The King was on a private visit to enable him to pray at the tombs of his ancestors

国王以私人身份出访，以便能够祭拜先祖陵墓。《柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典》

71. The Duke of Atholl's ancestor fought on Bonnie Prince Charlie's side.

阿索尔公爵的祖先站在快乐王子查理的一边作战.《期刊摘选》

72. For every ancestor that accumulated great wealth, there are thousands and thousands of ancestors starved.

对每一个敛聚了巨大财富的祖先, 就有成千上万祖先忍饥挨饿.《期刊摘选》

73. The archaic reptile is a living link with the ancestors of her people.

这种古老的动物一直与她们的祖先生活在一起.《期刊摘选》

74. Along the sides are smaller ancestors rooms commemorating 11 the dead.

堂的两厢是纪念已逝先祖的小房间.《期刊摘选》

75. The Hawaiian Ancestors greeted her with great joy.

夏威夷祖先怀着极大的喜悦问候她.《期刊摘选》

76. her ancestral home (= that had belonged to her ancestors )

她的祖居《牛津词典》

77. The common ancestor is, however, too recent for the new species to be a remnant of the first human excursion from Africa.

然而，共同的祖先对于新物种又太现代，而不能作为来自非洲的人类首次远足的遗迹。

78. He did not know from which part of Africa ancestor had come.

他不知道祖先来自非洲的什么地方.《期刊摘选》

79. When our ancestors were hunters and gatherers 10,000 years ago, they didn't have time to wonder much about anything besides finding food.

1万年以前，我们的祖先以围猎和收集果实为生，那时他们除了寻找食物以外，没有时间思考别的事情。《09年12月考研真题 | 阅读》

80. Snobs talk as if they have begotten their own ancestors.

小人大言不惭,简直把自己的祖宗也说成是他们生的了.《期刊摘选》

81. When the competitive environment pushed our ancestors to achieve that potential, they could in turn afford more education.

当竞争的环境逼迫我们的祖先发挥出这种潜能时，他们反过来也会受得起更多得教育。《09年12月考研真题 | 阅读》

82. Talbot's "calotype" was the first negative-to-positive process and the direct ancestor of the modern photograph.

塔尔博特的“卡罗式摄影法”是第一种用负片洗印正片的方法，这种方法是现代摄影技术的直系鼻祖。

83. Fire represents the internal fire that the Eastern Ancestors call the kundalini energy system.

火代表了东方祖先称之为[昆达里尼能量系统]的内在火焰.《期刊摘选》

84. You can call that ancestor-worship if you wish, but it gives to the paper an astonishing momentum of thought and principle.

如果你愿意，可以称之为祖先崇拜，但是它给了这份报纸一种惊人的思想和原则动力。

85. Their ancestor is different from that of micro bats.

它们的祖先与微型蝙蝠的祖先不同。

86. Fire brought warmth and brightness to the ancestors of humankind, and fire lit up human civilization.

火的应用促进了人类文明的发展，驱散黑暗、带来温暖。

87. His ancestors came from France.

他的先祖来自法国。《外研社英语同义词辨析词典》

88. To design an algorithm for a given tree node 2 return to their recent public ancestors.

设计一个算法,对于给定的树中2结点返回它们的最近公共祖先.《期刊摘选》

89. Again you can call upon your ancestors to show you what the karma is.

再一次,你可以召唤你的祖先前来向你展示业力是什么.《期刊摘选》

90. Don't defile the land of our ancestors!

再不要污染我们先祖们的大地！

91. The three species evolved from a single ancestor.

这三种生物从同一祖先进化而来。《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》

92. 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.《期刊摘选》

93. By our ancestors, at the size of it!

先祖在上, 看它那尺寸!《期刊摘选》

94. Ancestor had created so many glories.

祖先创造过许多的荣耀.《期刊摘选》

95. She has worshipped her ancestor.

她已拜过她的祖先.《简明英汉词典》

96. Many adapt the clothing and appearance of their ancestors.

很多人把他们先祖的服饰和外形改得能适应时代.《期刊摘选》

97. Explorer Roy Chapman Andrews argued at the time that the whale must be a throwback to a land-living ancestor.

探险家罗伊·查普曼·安德鲁斯当时认为，鲸鱼一定是一种返祖的陆地生物。

98. Venus flytraps, for example, share an ancestor with Portuguese sundews, which only catch prey passively, via "flypaper" glands on their stems.

例如，维纳斯捕蝇草和葡萄牙茅膏菜有共同的祖先，后者只通过茎上的“捕蝇纸”腺体被动地捕捉猎物。

99. Beyond: The Last Common ancestor.

超越：最后的共同祖先。

100. They at ones from the ancestor homes ancestral home of soybeans, Asia.

他们关注来自大豆故乡亚洲的胚质.《期刊摘选》

101. My ancestor was a preacher, traveling around the countryside.

我的祖先是一位游历于乡间的传教士。

102. Regulus legends of our ancestors was the Yellow Emperor, for quicksand, Tang in the Kunlun Mountains.

传说我们的老祖宗轩辕黄帝就曾经, “ 涉流沙, 登于昆仑 ”《期刊摘选》

103. They seem all to be descended from the same bland and adorable ancestor, a wide-eyed, thin-lipped soul with barely any nose and a mane of bouclé hair.

他们都像从一种温和的，可爱的祖先进化来的，这种动物眼睛大大的，嘴唇很薄，几乎没有鼻子，带着毛茸茸的绒毛。

104. Aristotle is considered the ancestor of the varying sorts of thought about form, and it's this move that he makes in Poetics that engenders this possibility.

亚里士多德被认为是各种形式思想的始祖，正是他在《诗学》中做出的这一举动，才产生了这种可能性。

105. When he was told that the tombs were his ancestors', he couldn't help weeping.

得知一座坟茔是祖先的墓地，他禁不住放声大哭。

106. Unfortunately this revelation about the hippopotamus apparently contradicts the fossil record, which suggests that the hippopotamus is only a very distant relative of the whale, not an ancestor.

很不幸，关于河马的这一发现显然与化石记录相矛盾，化石记录表明河马只是鲸鱼的一个远亲，并不是祖先。

107. Japan usually gives people 3 days off to go back to their hometowns to pay respect to their ancestors.

日本全国放假3天，让城里人返乡祭祖。

108. The direct ancestor of the modern cat was the Kaffir cat of ancient Egypt.

现代猫的直系物种原型是古代埃及的卡菲尔猫。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

109. The transferee or heritor of shares shall succeed the rights and obligations oftransfer or ancestor.

社股受让人或继承人,应承继让与人或被继承人之权利义务.《期刊摘选》

110. I do not think that your illustrious ancestor toyed idly with variations.

我不信您显赫的祖先会徒劳无益地玩弄不同的写法.《期刊摘选》

111. The ancestor of the modern bicycle was called a penny-farthing.

现代自行车的原型称作penny-farthing（一种前轮大后轮小的自行车）。《牛津词典》

112. They said their ancestor was a famous hunter and a crack hunter.

他们说他们的祖宗是个有名的猎人,也是个神枪手.《辞典例句》

113. Her Chinese friends referred to the empress as their venerable ancestor.

她的中国朋友们称那位皇后是令他们尊敬的祖先。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

114. The spirit had not come from any ancestor, it had come out of the unknown.

灵魂不是来自祖先, 而是来自未知世界.《期刊摘选》

115. By such deeds, you soil the very name the ancestor have bequeathed us.

你这样做, 玷污了祖宗们留给我们的名声.《辞典例句》

116. The King was on a private visit to enable him to pray at the tombs of his ancestors.

国王以私人身份出访，以便能够祭拜先祖陵墓。《柯林斯例句》

117. A class type automatically inherits all of the members from its immediate ancestor.

类类型自动继承其直接祖先的所有成员.《期刊摘选》

118. There is only one explanation for that at the molecular level, which is a common ancestor.

对分子水平只有一种解释，那就是共同的祖先。

119. TObject is the ultimate ancestor of all classes in the object hierarchy.

在对象层次上,Tobject是所有类的祖先.《期刊摘选》

120. Modern techniques for producing and shipping food led to greater variety and quantity, including a tremendous increase in the amount of animal protein and dairy products available, making us more vigorous than our ancestors.

生产和运输食品的现代技术使得食品更加多样化，数量更丰富，包括可购买的动物蛋白以及乳制品数量的大幍增加，这使得我们比自己的祖先更加有活力。《四级真题- 2016年 6月 3卷 阅读B》

121. The abacus is the ancestor of the modern computer.

算盘是现代电脑的原型.《辞典例句》

122. Billions years ago, our ancestors gambled and took chance with life!

亿万年前, 我们的祖先打了一个赌而且获得了生的机会.《期刊摘选》

实用例句

1. The abacus is one of the first mechanical counting devices, an ancient ancestor of today's computers.

FORBES

2. Broadly speaking, a haplogroup is a family of similar haplotypes that share a common ancestor with the same genetic mutations.

FORBES: Portrait of an Irish Genotype

3. Rebecca Skloot says she hopes that scientific companies that have gained from HeLa cells will give back to the family whose ancestor changed the history of medicine.

VOA : special.2010.07.21

4. The current Lord Elgin said it was "completely untrue" to suggest his ancestor had plundered the Parthenon.

BBC: NEWS | UK | Elgin marbles campaign launches

5. The ancestor of polo, this traditional game of horsemen is played with a dead goat rather than a ball.

BBC: Following the Silk Road to the end of China

6. Recently, researchers found the missing link: the immediate ancestor of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus.

NPR: Origin of AIDS Linked to Colonial Practices in Africa

7. Her Chinese friends referred to the Empress as their venerable ancestor.

她的中国朋友们把这位女皇称作令人敬仰的祖先。

8. More than forty percent of Americans have an ancestor who passed through Ellis Island.

VOA : special.2009.06.29

9. He hasn't disturbed the contents of his desk, which include an ancestor's false teeth, passport and a ledger from 1947.

WSJ: A Lower East Side Matzo Story, Leavened With History

10. The immediate ancestor of rock 'n' roll is rhythm-and-blues.

摇滚乐直接源自节奏布鲁斯。

11. That's how long it took for an international team of scientists to excavate and analyze the fossilized skeleton of a 4.4 million year old human ancestor, Ardipithecus ramidus, which was discovered in Ethiopia.

VOA : standard.2009.12.24

12. I'd still take it back in time with me and amaze our ancestor with my quirky, but fun, transforming buddy.

ENGADGET: IRL: ASUS Transformer Prime, Verbatim Dual USB Power Pack and V-Moda's Crossfade LP headphones

13. But the key is, to be a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, you have to have an Indian ancestor.

NPR: Cherokee Nation Faces New Battle

14. Does your family have a record of your ancestors?

你们家有家谱吗？

15. Biologists have long believed that elephants and sea cows, despite their obvious modern differences, share a common ancestor.

ECONOMIST: The elephant and the mermaid

16. An ancestor of his was Christoph von Lieven, a bright young general in Alexander's entourage.

ECONOMIST: Russia's war against Napoleon

17. About a third of CroV's genes are similar to Mimivirus genes, suggesting they share a distant ancestor.

ECONOMIST: A new, giant virus is confounding old certainties

18. The oldest ancestor of the point-contact transistor was the crystal detector, used in early wireless sets.

ECONOMIST: The middle age of the transistor

19. 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。

20. On Lunar New Year and the autumn harvest holiday Chuseok, the entire country takes part in ancestor rites.

BBC: A free meal with South Korea's monks

21. The two species had lived separately since splitting off from a common ancestor, Homo heidelbergensis, 160, 000 years earlier.

WSJ: Neanderthals: Why Us and Not Them?

22. Illicit trade's ancestor, smuggling, traces back to ancient times, and many a "thieves' market" survives in the world's commercial hubs.

NPR: Tracking the World's Black Market: 'Illicit'

23. So then there's the whole idea--we've already given you some sense that the Greeks were ancestor worshippers.

所以这就是当时的情况,我告诉过你们,古希腊人对祖先甚是尊敬古希腊历史简介课程节选 : 耶鲁公开课

24. His first name commemorates an ancestor, John Endicott, who was the state's first colonial governor.

ECONOMIST: Endicott Peabody

25. It is not clear how and why the ancestor of elephants left the water for a life on land.

BBC: Elephant 'had aquatic ancestor'

26. At different genes, humans share a common genetic ancestor with chimpanzees at different times.

ECONOMIST: Humans could have interbred with chimpanzees

27. If so, the genetics of Arabians should show convergence on an ancient ancestor of more than 125, 000 years ago.

WSJ: Matt Ridley on Early Humans Leaving Africa | Mind & Matter

28. But the semantic web is pretty much a direct ancestor of these stone age efforts.

FORBES: Another Thing That Can't Arrive Fast Enough In Newsrooms: Algorithmic Layouts

29. The differences among the subjects, however, showed how they may indicate a common ancestor.

BBC: Tickled apes yield laughter clue

30. So how are we to account for the diversification of languages, the spread of different ethnic linguistic groups throughout the lands of the earth if we all come from one common creative moment, one common ancestor?

所以，如果我们都起源于同一个时刻，来源于,同一个祖先，那又要怎样解释语言的多样性，怎样解释,使用不同语言的族群遍布地球上的所有土地,这一现象呢？旧约导论课程节选 : 耶鲁公开课

31. Mrs Murray's ancestor, called Augusta Waddington, was born at Ty Uchaf in 1802.

BBC: NEWS | UK | Wales | South East Wales | Lady's legacy of Welsh culture

32. Ancestor worship, as well as respect for one's living extended family, is a foundation of Chinese culture and society.

CNN: The Really Useful Guide

33. The researchers had thought the Hobbit's island-hopping ancestor was Homo erectus, which is known to have lived on nearby Java.

BBC: NEWS | Science/Nature | Team widens search for 'Hobbits'

34. We can say today that this university is a direct ancestor of the platonic republic of Plato's Academy.

我们可以说现今这间大学的直系原型,即是，“柏拉图学院“的,柏拉图式理想国。政治哲学导论课程节选 : 耶鲁公开课

35. Mr Marriott is still looking for firm evidence of his ancestor's role in bringing the bird to England.

BBC: William Strickland: The man who gave us the turkey dinner

36. Aristotle is considered the ancestor of the varying sorts of thought about form, and it's this move, this move that he makes in the Poetics, that engenders this possibility.

亚里士多德称得上是对形式的多元思考之父,正是他所做的，和在《诗学》书中所提到的，使这一切成为可能。文学理论导论课程节选 : 耶鲁公开课

37. So scientists can clock how long ago HIV diverged from its chimpanzee ancestor.

NPR: Origin of AIDS Linked to Colonial Practices in Africa

38. Some other experts say that the ancestor of the modern guitar was brought to Spain from Persia sometime in the twelfth century.

VOA : special.2010.05.12

39. What connects them is their link to a common ancestor -- the family patriarch William Harrison Rand.

CNN: The story

40. And so there was an assumption that our common ancestor with them would have been something that also walked that way.

VOA : standard.2009.12.24

41. FleetBoston's ancestor, for instance, profited from financing the slave trade when it was already illegal under American law.

ECONOMIST: Slavery and the law

42. Annie's parents were prosperous New Englanders and she claimed an ancestor who had come from England on the Mayflower.

ECONOMIST: Ruth Dyk

43. It bears little resemblance to its forebears or their common ancestor, the undersized-yet-chunky netbook.

FORBES: Youd have to be crazy not to.