ancestry

英 [ˈænsestri]

美 [ˈænsestri]

n.  (统称)祖宗，祖先; 列祖列宗

复数：ancestries　

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Collins.1 / BNC.14094 / COCA.10801

牛津词典

noun

• （统称）祖宗，祖先；列祖列宗
  the family or the race of people that you come from
  1. to have Scottish ancestry
     祖籍苏格兰
  2. He was able to trace his ancestry back over 1 000 years.
     他可追祖溯宗至1 000年以前。

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 世系；血统
  Yourancestryis the fact that you are descended from certain people.
  1. ...a family who could trace their ancestry back to the sixteenth century.
     世系可上溯到16世纪的家族

英英释义

noun

• inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline
  Synonym:lineagederivationfiliation
• the descendants of one individual
  1. his entire lineage has been warriors
  Synonym:lineagelineline of descentdescentbloodlineblood linebloodpedigreeoriginparentagestemmastock

双语例句

• Hispanics are people of Spanish ancestry.
  西班牙后裔就是具有西班牙血统的人。
• I intend to forgive anything that my ancestry perpetrated that harmed another.
  我意愿宽恕我祖先犯下的、害他人的任何行径。
• I intend to forgive all atrocities of war and torture as experienced in my ancestry.
  我要去谅解我的祖先中所有体验了战争和拷打的祖先们。
• His Japanese ancestry has been played up by some of his opponents.
  他的日本血统被一些对手大肆渲染。
• I intend to forgive my ancestry for raising animals or fish for slaughter in painful or unclean circumstances.
  我意愿宽恕为在痛苦及肮脏的环境中的宰杀而饲养动物或鱼类的我的祖先。
• I intend to release all my personal karma from the era of Atlantis in my tapestry of ancestry.
  我意愿解除我祖先织锦中来自亚特兰蒂斯时代的所有个人业力。
• Many of their genes share a common ancestry and function with human genes, and this is particularly true for orthologous genes.
  许多它们的基因与人类基因共享一个共同的祖先和功能，这对直系同源基因是特别正确的。
• Related by common characteristics or ancestry.
  有共同的特征和血统的关系。
• She said that would be more accurate than pinning the name on the genetic ancestry of the virus.
  她说这将是更准确的名称比根据固定的遗传血统来命名病毒。
• I intend to forgive my ancestry for hunting dolphins, whales or any other kingdom.
  我意愿宽恕我的祖先所做的猎捕海豚、鲸鱼或任何其他王国。