ancestor
英 [ˈænsestə(r)]
美 [ˈænsestər]
n. 祖宗; 祖先; (动物的)原种; (机器的)原型
复数：ancestors
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同义词辨析
ancestorforefatherprogenitor【导航词义：祖先】
ancestorn. 祖先，祖宗
〔辨析〕
用在谱系或历史书中，强调带有父系或母系嫡系血缘关系，是比祖父母更早的家族成员，无性别之分，女性祖先则常用 ancestress。
〔例证〕
His ancestors came from France.
他的先祖来自法国。
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。
他的先祖来自法国。
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。
forefathern. （尤指男性的）祖先，祖宗
〔辨析〕
主要用于正式文体或文学作品，较少用于日常生活或历史书中。
〔例证〕
Our forefathers were the first to invent gunpowder.
我们的祖先最先发明了火药。
我们的祖先最先发明了火药。
progenitorn. 〈正式〉（人或动物的）祖先；先驱
〔辨析〕
不强调血缘关系，也不带家族或种族色彩，只强调遗传性；还可引申指某种观念等的创始者。
〔例证〕
You must do much better than your progenitors.
你一定要比你祖先做得更好。
He is a progenitor of cubism.
他是立体派的创始人。
你一定要比你祖先做得更好。
He is a progenitor of cubism.
他是立体派的创始人。
牛津词典
noun
- 祖宗；祖先
a person in your family who lived a long time ago- His ancestors had come to America from Ireland.
他的祖先从爱尔兰来到美国。
- His ancestors had come to America from Ireland.
- （动物的）原种
an animal that lived in the past which a modern animal has developed from- 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
- a reptile that was the common ancestor of lizards and turtles
- （机器的）原型
an early form of a machine which later became more developed- 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.
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...
英英释义
noun
- someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
双语例句
- It is the ancestor of karate and jujitsu.
功夫起源于中国，是空手道和柔术的祖先。 - He could trace his ancestors back seven hundred years.
他的先祖可以上溯到700年前。 - The immediate ancestor of rock 'n' roll is rhythm-and-blues.
摇滚乐直接源自节奏布鲁斯。 - Is it because of my own sins, or my ancestor's sins?
是因为我的罪还是因为我祖宗的罪？ - 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。 - Each big families all have own ancestral hall, is consecrating this family ancestor in there.
每个大家庭都有自己的宗祠，在那里供奉着这个家庭的祖先。 - Traditional Chinese religion, especially ancestor worship, was important in the lives of Chinese immigrants.
中国传统的宗教，尤其是祖先崇拜，是很重要的，在生活中的中国移民。 - This is a piece of heroic myth, but not the first ancestor myth in strict significance.
这是一则英雄神话而不是严格意义上的始祖神话。 - In yet another lifetime, this initiate's ancestor was a Pharaoh's wife in ancient Egypt.
而在另一生中，这一提升者的祖先是古埃及法老的一名妻子。 - That is when orangutans and other great apes last had a common ancestor.
那是猩猩和其他大猿猴共有一个祖先的最后时间段。