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

• 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。
• The sea behind our ancestral house at Hikkaduwa on the southwestern coast of Sri Lanka was my friend.
  我家的祖屋位于斯里兰卡西南海岸的Hikkaduwa，而房子后面的大海就是我的朋友，是她听我讲话，给我带来安慰，同时她也令我着迷。
• 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。
• The old rule barring women and poor people from the banquets in the ancestral temples has also been broken.
  女子和穷人不能进祠堂吃酒的老例，也被打破。
• The world and the regional, national and international news is a mirror of one's own ancestral karma.
  世界和地区、国和国际新闻就是一个人自身家族业力的镜子。
• 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。
• All the Pomoideae were allopolyploids derived from a doubled hybrid between two remote ancestral types.
  所有的梨亚科是由两个远缘祖先类型双杂交演化的异源多倍体。
• Presumably in the common ancestral line to dinosaurs and crocodiles and birds.
  可能是恐龙、鳄鱼和鸟的共同祖先。
• This article tries to research its cultural features from the architecture culture, ancestral hall culture and human culture.
  本文试图从其独具特色的建筑文化、浓郁的宗祠文化及传承不断的人文文化三方面来阐述其文化特色。
• 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。