英 [ˈænsestə(r)] 美 [ˈænsestər]
n. 祖先，祖宗；（动植物）原种；原型，雏形
复数ancestors
ancestor /ˈænsɛstə/ CET4 TEM4
可数名词 Your ancestors are the people from whom you are descended. 祖先
...our daily lives, so different from those of our ancestors.
…我们的日常生活，与我们祖先的生活如此不同。
可数名词 An ancestor of something modern is an earlier thing from which it developed. 物种原型
The direct ancestor of the modern cat was the Kaffir cat of ancient Egypt.
现代猫的直系物种原型是古代埃及的卡菲尔猫。
someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
同义词： ascendant / ascendent / antecedent / root
(遗产的)被继承人，先人
祖先-引用次数：33
Three finless porpoise populations in Chinese waters had a common ancestor before 058～108 Mya ago.
各种群在距今58～108万年以前有一个共同祖先。
参考来源中国水域江豚种群遗传变异的研究
始祖
祖先-引用次数：29
Wild lotus is the ancestor of cultivar lotus, and serve as a natural gene bank for breeding of fine lotus varieties.
野生莲是栽培莲的祖先,是培育优良莲品种的天然基因库。
参考来源黑龙江流域野生莲的遗传多样性
原始粒子
祖宗
源始
上代
...关系，因为子类的每个实例也都是父类的实例。 大的中空箭头表示泛化。箭头指向父类。花括号表示UML注释。 泛化是可传递的，可以跨越任意层次。术语祖先(ancestor)和后代(descendant)指的是跨越多层的类的泛化。子类实例同时也是其所有祖先类的实例。
门楣松弛至此,毕竟祖父有何隐恶以致孽报 是生既招众人鄙贱,死后何颜见祖宗(Ancestors)于泉下 ?
但"老祖宗(Ancestor)"总结的东西(Thing)生命力(Vitality)是很固执的，己所不欲，勿施于人。
ancestral 祖先的；祖传的
ancestry 祖先；血统
ancestress 女性祖先；女性被继承人
始祖，[生物]祖先；被继承人
father / root / grandfather
Her Chinese friends referred to the empress as their venerable ancestor.
她的中国朋友们称那位皇后是令他们尊敬的祖先。
Their ancestor is different from that of micro bats.
它们的祖先与微型蝙蝠的祖先不同。
My ancestor was a preacher, traveling around the countryside.
我的祖先是一位游历于乡间的传教士。
He says they are part of the genome of the last common ancestor of all birds,frogs, dinosaurs and mammals.
VOA : special.2010.06.29
We can say today that this university is a direct ancestor of the platonic republic of Plato's Academy.
我们可以说现今这间大学的直系原型,即是，“柏拉图学院“的,柏拉图式理想国。
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So then there's the whole idea--we've already given you some sense that the Greeks were ancestor worshippers.
所以这就是当时的情况,我告诉过你们,古希腊人对祖先甚是尊敬
古希腊历史简介课程节选 : 耶鲁公开课
Some other experts say that the ancestor of the modern guitar was brought to Spain from Persia sometime in the twelfth century.
VOA : special.2010.05.12
More than forty percent of Americans have an ancestor who passed through Ellis Island.
VOA : special.2009.06.29
On Lunar New Year and the autumn harvest holiday Chuseok, the entire country takes part in ancestor rites.
The differences among the subjects, however, showed how they may indicate a common ancestor.
But the semantic web is pretty much a direct ancestor of these stone age efforts.
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