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ancestor

noun
 
🔊/ˈænsestə(r)/
🔊/ˈænsestər/
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  1.  
    a person in your family who lived a long time ago祖宗；祖先 synonym forebear
    • His ancestors had come to America from Ireland.他的祖先从爱尔兰来到美国。🔊🔊
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    • 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
    Topics Family and relationshipsb2, Historyb2
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • direct
    • immediate
    • ancient
    • …
    verb + ancestor
    • be descended from
    • have
    • share
    • …
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    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
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • direct
    • immediate
    • ancient
    • …
    verb + ancestor
    • be descended from
    • have
    • share
    • …
    See full entry
  3.  
    an early form of a machine that later became more developed （机器的）原型synonym forerunner
    • 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）。🔊🔊
    compare descendant
    4. Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French ancestre, from Latin antecessor, from antecedere, from ante ‘before’ + cedere ‘go’.