ancestors
英 [ˈænsɪstəz]
美 [ˈænˌsɛstərz]
n. 祖宗; 祖先; (动物的)原种; (机器的)原型
ancestor的复数
柯林斯词典
- N-COUNT 祖宗;祖先
Yourancestorsare the people from whom you are descended.- ...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。
- ...our daily lives, so different from those of our ancestors...
- N-COUNT 原种；原型
Anancestor ofsomething modern is an earlier thing from which it developed.- 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。
- The direct ancestor of the modern cat was the Kaffir cat of ancient Egypt...
双语例句
- My ancestors also brought back the resplendent western civilization, such as medicine and calendar.
我的先祖们也带回了璀璨的西方文明，如医学与历算。 - Our ancestors domesticated various plant and animal species.
我们的祖先驯化了各种动植物。 - 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。 - They used to think that we inherited this tendency from our animal ancestors.
他们过去认为我们是从我们的动物祖先身上遗传的这种倾向。 - With their ancestors in paradise.
就去天堂见祖宗去了。 - Our ancestors discovered and made good use of this objective time, which created the solar calendar.
我们的祖先很早就发现了和利用了这个客观时间，因此制定出公历和农历（阴历）。 - I have avenged my ancestors.
我已为我的祖先报了仇。 - Our ancestors built this wall.
我们的祖先修筑了这道墙。 - Have modern Americans lost the pioneering spirit of their ancestors?
现代美国人是否已失去了其先辈所具有的开拓精神？ - 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。