ancestor
noun /ˈænsestə(r)/
/ˈænsestər/
- a person in your family who lived a long time ago
祖宗；祖先 - His ancestors had come to America from Ireland.
他的祖先从爱尔兰来到美国。
Wordfinder- ancestor
- branch
- descent
- dynasty
- family tree
- genealogy
- generation
- inherit
- relation
- trace
Topics Family and relationshipsb2, Historyb2- He can trace his ancestors back to the reign of Elizabeth I.
他的祖先可以追溯到伊丽莎白一世统治时期。 - He claims as his literary ancestors such giants as Henry James and William Faulkner.
他将亨利・詹姆斯和威廉・福克纳等文学巨匠称作自己的先驱。 - Our earliest ancestors lived in a world fraught with danger.
我们最早的祖先生活在一个充满危险的世界里。 - The Romans built these monuments to glorify their illustrious ancestors.
罗马人修建这些纪念碑来颂扬他们杰出的祖先。 - The builder of the house was a direct ancestor of the present owner.
建造这幢房子的人就是它现在主人的一位直系祖先。 - The two species share a common ancestor.
这两个物种有一个共同的祖先。 - They honour/honor their ancestors and believe in the spirits of nature.
他们尊重先辈，信仰自然神灵。 - a distant ancestor of mine
我的一位远祖
Collocations Dictionaryadjective- direct
- immediate
- ancient
- …
- be descended from
- have
- share
- …
- His ancestors had come to America from Ireland.
- an animal that lived in the past that a modern animal has developed from
（动物的）原始种型 - 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
Collocations Dictionaryadjective- direct
- immediate
- ancient
- …
- be descended from
- have
- share
- …
- a reptile that was the common ancestor of lizards and turtles
- an early form of a machine that later became more developed
（机器的）原型 - 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）。
- The ancestor of the modern bicycle was called a penny-farthing.
词源Middle English: from Old French ancestre, from Latin antecessor, from antecedere, from ante ‘before’ + cedere ‘go’.