ancestor
美 [?æn?sest?r]
英 [?ænsest?(r)] 
- n.祖先;祖宗;(動物的)原始種型;(機器的)原型
- 網絡先輩;先人;先驅
詞形變化
復數:ancestors 反義詞
同義詞
英漢雙解
1. | 祖宗;祖先a person in your family who lived a long time ago |
| His ancestors had come to America from Ireland. 他的祖先從愛爾蘭來到美國。 |
2. | (動物的)原始種型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 作為蜥蜴和龜的共同原種的一種爬行動物 |
3. | (機器的)原型an early form of a machine which later became more developed |
| The ancestor of the modern bicycle was called a penny-farthing. 現代自行車的原型稱作 penny-farthing (一種前輪大后輪小的自行車)。 |
英漢解釋
英英解釋
例句
So back in 1982 I said, "Well perhaps the elephant had an aquatic ancestor. " Peals of merry laughter!
1982年我說過大象可能有水生始祖一陣開心的笑聲!
He had another spiritual ancestor -- in terms of transparent diplomacy, at least -- in Leon Trotsky.
他還有另一個精神領袖式的祖先——至少在透明外交方面——列夫?托洛茨基。
He did not know from which part of Africa his ancestor had come.
他不知道他的祖先來自非洲的哪一部分
The spirit had not come from any ancestor, it had come out of the unknown.
靈魂不是來自祖先,而是來自未知世界。
Your ancestor was one of the twelve knights who assisted the Lord of Estremavilla in Normandy in his conquest of Glamorganshire.
你的祖先是輔佐諾曼底的埃斯徹瑪維拉勛爵征服格拉摩甘郡的十二個騎士當中的一個。
Within the last 200, 000 years, we all share an ancestor, a single person, Mitochondrial Eve -- you might have heard about her -- in Africa.
DNA把歷史弄得很清楚,在過去的二十萬年中,我們有共同的祖先,同一個人,線粒體Eve—你可能聽說過她—在非洲。
A clone refers to one or more offspring derived from a single ancestor, whose genetic composition is identical to that of the ancestor.
克隆是指來自同一祖先的一個或多個后代,其基因構成與其祖先完全相同。
It was not right, thought Han Fei-tzu, for his wife to die before him: her ancestor-of-the-heart had outlived her husband.
這是不對的,韓非子想,他的妻子在他之前死去是不對的:因為她的心靈之祖活得比她的丈夫要長久。
I feel that I have become to a ancestor in the dark, under the starry sky and with daylight warm on my face.
臉上是余燼的溫暖,周圍是暗夜,頭上是星光閃爍的夜空,我感到自己變成了原始時期的先民。
So, Homo erectus was the first human ancestor to leave Africa and begin its spread across the globe.
所以,直立猿類是第一個離開非洲的人類祖先,之后他們就開始遍布全球了。
The result is the first creature since the beginning of creatures that has no ancestor.
這是自生命起源以來第一個沒有祖先的生物。
Once a year, all members of a family visit the grave sites of each ancestor and pay their respects.
一個家庭的所有成員會一年一次的去每個死去長輩的墓地(掃墓)已示尊敬。
But it is not impossible that it (or its ancestor species) might have lived during earlier time periods in the European archipelago.
不過它(或其祖先物種)不可能在更早的時間在歐洲群島生活。
All he knew was that his African ancestor taught his son and grandson the words in his own language for "river" and "guitar" .
他所知道的只是非洲祖先用自己的語言教給兒孫們的“江”和“吉他”這兩個詞。
Research on Ardi suggests that this ancestor didn't look nearly as much like a modern chimpanzee as had been previously suspected.
研究告訴我們,我們的這個祖先“阿蒂”并不像先前所預測那樣與現代黑猩猩長得很像。
So, if the wooden movable type was the father of movable type, then a small wooden board should be movable like the ancestor of the.
所以,如果說木活字是活字之父的話,小像木雕板應該是活字之祖了。
A few months after I returned from the Awash, I asked White what he thought the last common ancestor would have looked like.
就在距離上次訪問的幾個月以后,我又回到了阿瓦什,我問懷特在他腦海中,所謂的最后的共有祖先應該是什么樣子的。
It is possible, however, to limit the selector to only the direct (first generation, so to speak) child of the ancestor, or parent.
但是,選擇符也可以只選擇祖先(或父)元素的直接后代(即子元素)。
Distribution of the FNP also suggests that this mutation may have occurred during the divergence of japonica from its wild ancestor.
該FNP的分布也表明該突變可能在粳稻從水稻祖先分化出來之前已經發生。
What he did say was that we, and apes, and chimpanzees for that matter, had a common ancestor, once, a long, long time ago.
他說的是我們和猿,以及黑猩猩,曾經,很久很久以前,在這方面有著一個共同的祖先。
No one knows what ancient savage ancestor of ours first began to make use of fire.
沒有人知道我們的哪個古代原始祖先首先開始使用火。
The ancestor of the modern bicycle was called a penny-farthing.
現代自行車的原型稱作penny-farthing(一種前輪大后輪小的自行車)。
Allow each ancestor to blend with you for a time to share their wisdom and truth and aid you in your concerns at this time in your life.
允許每一個祖先和你融合一段時間,來分享他們的智慧與真相,并幫助你在此生此刻正在關心的問題。
The use of a common model ancestor in model comparisons and merges is an extremely important (and rather subtle) process to understand.
模型比較和合并中模型起始的使用,是我們必須理解的非常重要的一種進程。
In a few moments lonely Tess was asleep, in the bedroom once used by the young wives of her ancestor.
過了一會兒,寂寞的苔絲睡著了,在那間曾被她的祖先們的年輕妻子使用過的臥室里睡著了。
Although goldfish have different color and shape, but each has some kinship between them is the ancient common ancestor of the wild carp.
金魚雖然具有不同的顏色和體形,但彼此間有一定的血緣關系,它們的共同祖先就是古代的野生鯽魚。
This ancestor was a single-celled aquatic eukaryote, and would have had the common features of animal and plant cells described above.
它是單細胞水生真核生物,并應該具備上述動物和植物細胞的共同特點。
The word I'm thinking of is the Latin ancestor of "mallet" and it shows up in other words too.
我想到的那個拉丁詞是mallet(木槌)的前身,也在其他單詞中出現。
Although UK garage was the immediate ancestor, in crucial ways they were both more like the reactivation of different aspects of jungle.
盡管UKgarage是他們的祖師爺,但這些關鍵之處讓它們都更像是不同角度上的jungle復興。
You just jealous of him not being your ancestor.
你們就是嫉妒他不是你們的祖先。
Chinese ancestor worship has already been called a religion by certain writers, and I believe this to a very great extent is correct.
有些作家曾稱中國人的祖先的崇拜為一種宗教,在我看來,這大抵是對的。
A model that had a single common ancestor and allowed for some gene- swapping among species was even better than a simple tree of life.
一個擁有單一共同祖先且允許物種間部分基因彼此交換的模式甚至更優于樹形生命模式。
In just a couple of seconds, you are informed that you and the grizzly bear shared a common ancestor just 98. 2 million years ago.
在兩秒鐘之后,你就會被告知這頭熊和你在九千八百二十萬年前有著同一個祖先。
If that's true, then aren't we also related to the ancestors of that common ancestor? I mean, my cousin and I both share a grandparent.
如果這是真的,那么我們不是有關的祖先的共同祖先嗎?我的意思是,我的表哥和我分享祖父母。
The butchered bones were discovered close to where the skeleton of a probable human ancestor, nicknamed Lucy, was found.
這些有屠宰痕跡的骨頭的發現地,與人類可能的祖先“露西”骨架的出土地非常接近。
You could be in the position of the prime minister, Tony Blair, whose ancestor acquired his name from adoptive or foster parents.
你可能會是一名首相,而唐尼·布萊爾的祖先是由于收養父母而獲得該姓氏。
Differing from Newton and Schopenhauer, your ancestor did not think of time as absolute and uniform.
您的祖先和牛頓、叔本華不同的地方是他認為時間沒有同一性和絕對性。
Nowadays, we can only appreciate a small portion of our ancestor's works and imagine how glorious Mogao used to be.
現在,我們只能欣賞到一小部分祖先的作品,然后去想象莫高窟曾經的輝煌。
But I hate him, and I had a feeling that he would surely lead us both to our ancestor.
但是我恨他,并預感到他肯定會領著我們去見我們的老祖宗。
Scientists can't decide whether this African hominid is just a failed predecessor of H. erectus or the rightful ancestor of modern humans.
科學家們無法決定到底這個非洲原始人類僅僅是進化失敗的直立人的前身,還是現代人真正的祖先。
"I think, in all honesty, " he said, "we don't yet know which species was our earliest direct ancestor in the human evolutionary line. "
“坦誠地講,”他說,“我們還不知道在進化史中自己最早的直系祖先是誰。”
Yet she is not the kind of ancestor most modern evolutionary biologists would have been looking for.
然而,她并不是絕大多數現代演化生物學家所尋找的那類祖先。