ancestral

英 [ænˈsestrəl]

美 [ænˈsestrəl]

adj.  祖先的; 祖传的

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柯林斯词典

• ADJ 祖先的；祖传的
  You useancestralto refer to a person's family in former times, especially when the family is important and has property or land which they have had for a long time.
  1. ...the family's ancestral home in southern Germany.
     这个家族在德国南部的祖居
  2. ...the ancestral portraits in the hallway.
     走廊里祖先的画像

英英释义

adj

• inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent
  1. ancestral home
  2. ancestral lore
  3. hereditary monarchy
  4. patrimonial estate
  5. transmissible tradition
  Synonym:hereditarypatrimonialtransmissible
• of or belonging to or inherited from an ancestor

双语例句

• With each recollection I intended to release the ancestral karma.
  在每一次回忆中，我意愿释放我的祖先业力。
• All the Pomoideae were allopolyploids derived from a doubled hybrid between two remote ancestral types.
  所有的梨亚科是由两个远缘祖先类型双杂交演化的异源多倍体。
• My ancestral home is Jiangsu but I was born in Daqing Oilfield.
  我老家是江苏的，但我又生在大庆油田。
• They sold their ancestral estate long ago.
  他们早就变卖了祖上传下来的产业。
• Its role was limited in ancestral temples to mediate the relation between gods and men.
  只是它的作用已仅限于在宗庙之中，协调人神之间的关系了。
• They are black, and Israel welcomes them to immigrate to their ancestral homeland.
  他们拥有黑色，而以色列欢迎他们回归其祖先的家园。
• Driven to desperation, my grandfather hanged himself on a tree beside our ancestral graves.
  被逼得无路可走，我祖父在祖坟旁的一棵树上吊死了。
• The work shows in great detail how the ancestral gene gained efficiency through duplication and division of labor.
  此项研究详细演示了古代基因是如何通过复制和劳动分工提升效率的。
• They kept their ancestral customs. My generation behaves differently from my father's and grandfather's.
  他们保持了祖辈的习俗。我这一代人和我父辈及祖辈表现不同。
• Foshan is important because of its Ancestral Temple and its handicrafts.
  佛山有名是因为这里的佛山祖庙和手工艺品。