ancestral

英 [ænˈsestrəl]

美 [ænˈsestrəl]

adj.  祖先的; 祖传的

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Collins.1 / BNC.11879 / COCA.8966

柯林斯词典

• ADJ 祖先的；祖传的
  You useancestralto 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.
  1. ...the family's ancestral home in southern Germany.
     这个家族在德国南部的祖居
  2. ...the ancestral portraits in the hallway.
     走廊里祖先的画像

英英释义

adj

• inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent
  1. ancestral home
  2. ancestral lore
  3. hereditary monarchy
  4. patrimonial estate
  5. transmissible tradition
  Synonym:hereditarypatrimonialtransmissible
• of or belonging to or inherited from an ancestor

双语例句

• The work shows in great detail how the ancestral gene gained efficiency through duplication and division of labor.
  此项研究详细演示了古代基因是如何通过复制和劳动分工提升效率的。
• I forgot about the ancestral rite today.
  我忘记今天要拜祭祖先了。
• They kept their ancestral customs. My generation behaves differently from my father's and grandfather's.
  他们保持了祖辈的习俗。我这一代人和我父辈及祖辈表现不同。
• You insist you know where you are but they it is part of their ancestral wisdom know better.
  你坚持说，知道自己在哪里，但他们，作为古老智慧的继承者，知道得比你清楚。
• Unlike jews, Gypsies have had no known ancestral land to hark back to.
  吉普塞人和犹太人不同，他们没有可以回想起来的已知的祖居地。
• Foshan is important because of its Ancestral Temple and its handicrafts.
  佛山有名是因为这里的佛山祖庙和手工艺品。
• As you know, my ancestral home is in Taishan in Guangdong province.
  正如你们所知，我的祖籍在广东省台山。
• Ancestral worship has long been at the heart of Orcish religion.
  祖先的崇拜之物已经深深的植根语兽人的宗教之中。
• His veins were full of ancestral blood that was rotten with this sort of unconscious brutality.
  他的血管里，充满了祖代传留的，由于这种不自觉的残忍而腐朽的血液。
• Zhang Fei ancestral temples have spread to all the country during Ming and Qing dynasties.
  张飞祠庙在历史时期得到了很大的发展，明清更是遍及全国各地。