ancestor的意思|ancestor的解释-里氏词典

ancestor ['ænsestә]

n. 祖先, 祖宗

Ancestor's festival is an important Chinese holiday.
鬼节是中国一个重要的节日。
He is sprung from noble ancestors.
他出身名门。
Deep in our genes we share one ancestor.
在我们的基因深处我们共有一个祖先。

ancestor

[ noun ]
someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
<noun.person>

Ancestor \An"ces*tor\, n. [OE. ancestre, auncestre, also
ancessour; the first forms fr. OF. ancestre, F. anc[^e]tre,
fr. the L. nom. antessor one who goes before; the last form
fr. OF. ancessor, fr. L. acc. antecessorem, fr. antecedere to
go before; ante before + cedere to go. See {Cede}, and cf.
{Antecessor}.]
1. One from whom a person is descended, whether on the
father's or mother's side, at any distance of time; a
progenitor; a fore father.

2. (Biol.) An earlier type; a progenitor; as, this fossil
animal is regarded as the ancestor of the horse.

3. (Law) One from whom an estate has descended; -- the
correlative of heir.

Hurling high Bs, our Turandot described how the brutal murder of an ancestor thousands of years ago made her hate all men.
The latter is showing 14th and 15th century bronze objects from the Lower Niger and some outstanding wooden Sepik sculptures from New Guinea - one, a bird-like flute plug, was held to embody the voice of an ancestor.
"I don't believe for a minute" that the beast is a direct human ancestor, Peter Andrews of the Natural History Museum in London said Wednesday in a telephone interview.
Widely practiced in Haiti where Roman Catholicism is the official religion, voodoo is a blend of Catholicism and Indian mysticism, with an emphasis on ancestor worship and harmony with nature.
East Coker is the place from which the poet's ancestor Andrew Eliot emigrated to America in 1669.
Not every Yourcenar ancestor is worth remembering.
He was a California surfer of the 1960s given to ricocheting off walls after a surfeit of the drink's direct ancestor, then named a Doozie.
Messing, a village of 200 people, is 45 miles east of London, and two genealogists say Bush's ancestor sailed from there to the New World in about 1630.
Bush and Franklin Delano Roosevelt share an ancestor in Anne Marbury, the noted religious reformer, heretic and a founder of Rhode Island, who was killed by Indians on Long Island in 1643.
With its ancestor worship and retelling of myths, Washington's Birthday serves the cultural purpose of instructing the young and reminding grown-ups about what it is to be an American, social science experts say.
He lives in the former imperial summer retreat of Petropolis, founded by and named for his royal ancestor, in the mountains 40 miles north of Rio.
A history of Niihau, written by a Robinson relative, says that Elizabeth Sinclair, the Scottish ancestor of the Robinsons who purchased the island, "always told her family that she wanted Niihau to be kept in the true Hawaiian way of life."
Among the family treasures reported missing was a gold sealing ring that once belonged to Arthur Middleton, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence and an ancestor of Brinton Young on his mother's side.
He is a prose Whitman of the 20th century; and indeed acknowledges the connection, claiming America's great confessional poet as his 'ancestor'. Although his sexually descriptive books are not Miller's best, they performed several important functions.
Reverence for the dead, or ancestor worship, is a way of life in Japan that could perhaps be described as a way of keeping in touch with departed family members.
In Gables, he transports the reader from the founding generation to the present villain, Judge Pyncheon, who reincarnates Hawthorne's ancestor.
An ancestor, John Russell, 6th Duke of Bedford, had spotted a version of the Three Graces in Canova's studio while on the Grand Tour.
"He looked like someone you'd want for an ancestor," she said.
Social workers want to force surgery on 6-year-old Kou Xiong to repair the condition and another birth defect, a dislocated hip. The boy's parents believe spirits inflicted the deformities on him to punish the family for an ancestor's wrongs.
Lindsay Duncan plays the title role in a story which is like a cross between a novel by the author's namesake and ancestor, Anthony Trollope, and 'The Archers' (10.00).
The president seemed to know that this posthumous declaration would be hard to ignore, especially in the Confucian-oriented Taiwan society that puts great faith in filial piety and ancestor worship.
Picard may also be challenging skeptics to let the new show proceed and reveal itself to be a worthy successor to its revered ancestor.
Crooked chairs, two metres high, dangle at odd angles along with a huge frame whose broken glass juts into the flesh of its 'living' picture, the gamekeeper's ancestor (Heinz Fossbrink).
The name means 'reckless and rash' - not a reference to the trust's investment strategy, but to an ancestor of the Northumberland family.
One trustee, a successful financier, had an ancestor who got through a tight spot with the aid of a Provident loan.

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