ancestor是什么意思_音标_用法_例句

简单释义：

n. 祖先；祖宗；（动物的）原始种型；（机器的）原型

网络 先辈；先人；先驱

变形：

复数：ancestors  

完整释义：

n.

1.祖先,祖宗
2.祖系体
3.原型
4.长辈
5.〔物〕原始粒子
6.先驱者
7.原始现象
8.世代
9.【生物学】先祖,原种
10.【法律】被继承人

例句：

1. 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语言教给儿孙们的“江”和“吉他”这两个词。

2. 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，如果说木活字是活字之父的话，小像木雕板应该是活字之祖了。

3. 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把历史弄得很清楚，在过去的二十万年中，我们有共同的祖先，同一个人，线粒体Eve—你可能听说过她—在非洲。

4. Once a year, all members of a family visit the grave sites of each ancestor and pay their respects.
   一个家庭的所有成员会一年一次的去每个死去长辈的墓地（扫墓）已示尊敬。

5. The butchered bones were discovered close to where the skeleton of a probable human ancestor, nicknamed Lucy, was found.
   这些有屠宰痕迹的骨头的发现地，与人类可能的祖先“露西”骨架的出土地非常接近。

6. 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.
   在两秒钟之后，你就会被告知这头熊和你在九千八百二十万年前有着同一个祖先。

7. This ancestor was a single-celled aquatic eukaryote, and would have had the common features of animal and plant cells described above.
   它是单细胞水生真核生物，并应该具备上述动物和植物细胞的共同特点。

8. I feel that I have become to a ancestor in the dark, under the starry sky and with daylight warm on my face.
   脸上是余烬的温暖，周围是暗夜，头上是星光闪烁的夜空，我感到自己变成了原始时期的先民。