ancestor详细意思

1. 祖宗，祖先
2. 原型；前身；先驱；始祖；前辈
3. 【律】被继承人
4. 【生】先祖，原种
5. 动物的祖先，动物品种的原型（后来的品种由此进化而来）

1. someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)

1.祖宗;祖先
Yourancestors are the people from whom you are descended.

e.g. ...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
e.g. He could trace his ancestors back seven hundred years.
他的先祖可以上溯到700年前。

2.原种；原型
Anancestor of something modern is an earlier thing from which it developed.

e.g. The directancestor 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。
e.g. The immediateancestor of rock 'n' roll is rhythm-and-blues.
摇滚乐直接源自节奏布鲁斯。

• a common ancestor同一个祖先
• remote ancestor远古祖先

• noble ancestors名门

• ancestor worship祭祖

• St. Peter..the spiritual ancestor of the Bishop of Rome.

  出自：H. H. Milman

• It is believed that his [the Suffolk's] ancestors were the horses of the Norsemen.

  出自：M. C. Self

• In the rites of ancestor worship the child imitated the gestures of his grandfather.

  出自：F. Fitzgerald

1. ancestor的基本意思是“祖先,祖宗”,是阳性可数名词,与其对应的阴性名词为ancestress［' nsestrIs］ (女祖先); 引申可作“原型,先驱”解。
2. ancestor表示“…是…的祖先”时,须用介词to。