ancestry的意思|ancestry的解释-里氏词典

ancestry ['ænsɛstrɪ]

n. 祖先, 世系, 名门出身

A person of Danish ancestry.
古丹麦人属于丹麦人祖先的人
In mythology and legend, a man, often of divine ancestry, who is endowed with great courage and strength, celebrated for his bold exploits, and favored by the gods.
古代神话和传说中半神式的英雄神话和传说中有神圣血统的，具有巨大的勇气和力量的人，因其英勇的行为而闻名，并受众神青睐
A person of English birth or ancestry living in India.
英裔印度人住在印度的英国出生或有英国血统的人

ancestry

[ noun ]

the descendants of one individual

<noun.group>

his entire lineage has been warriors

inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline

<noun.attribute>

Ancestry \An"ces*try\, n. [Cf. OF. ancesserie. See {Ancestor}.]
1. Condition as to ancestors; ancestral lineage; hence, birth
or honorable descent.

Title and ancestry render a good man more
illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible.
--Addison.

2. A series of ancestors or progenitors; lineage, or those
who compose the line of natural descent.

Richard Brown, director of policy, Association of British Chambers of Commerce, 9 Tufton Street, London SW1 You would think that an Irish ancestry had suddenly been discovered by the Bard.
And, particularly among those of Asian ancestry, there's a willingness to crowd into one domicile.
The Bishop Estate oversees a private school for students of Hawaiian ancestry and is the islands' largest private landowner with about 338,000 acres, equal to about 8% of the state.
Knutson is a gregarious campaigner with a ready handshake and knack for remembering names, and his Norwegian surname helps in a state where 15 percent of the population has Norwegian ancestry.
The nation cannot repay the 77,000 American citizens of Japanese ancestry and the 43,000 legal and illegal aliens for depriving them of their rights, but conscience demands that it make this long-overdue gesture of heartfelt regret.
Speaking of Portillo, the young Thatcherite standard-bearer has easily won this year's prize for the most imaginative ministerial Christmas card. Harking back to his Spanish ancestry, Portillo's greeting depicts a Garland cartoon of a Spanish bullfight.
Of Armenian ancestry, they were born in Iran but educated in Russia until the revolution, when they fled along with much of the Russian nobility to France.
One of the more famous, according to Gary Boyd Roberts of the New England Genealogical Society, is Joan Kennedy, former wife of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, whose ancestry dates back to accused witch Mary Esty.
That was not a factor in any way." The internment order issued by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1942 required all people of Japanese ancestry living in California, Washington and Oregon and some in Hawaii to be relocated.
Some later returned to Pitcairn and the populations of both islands to this day are predominantly of mutineer ancestry.
The ad contends many of the best jobs at a state-subsidized Subaru-Isuzu auto plant will go to workers of Japanese ancestry.
In the second, a poster of German composer Ludwig van Beethoven was altered so he appeared to be black after a fraternity house discussion about historic figures alleged to have some black ancestry.
Kendall also said that in order to participate in bidding for the contracts he made an employee's wife who had an Indian relative in her ancestry a 51 percent owner of his company.
The 1980 U.S. census found that of nearly 900,000 Americans reporting Chinese ancestry more than half spoke Chinese at home.
His marriage to a non-Christian and his refusal to baptize his two daughters automatically excommunicated him from the church of his ancestry.
Holding records of the 17 million immigrants who passed through Ellis Island, it will include a computer center where descendants can research their family ancestry.
It was customary to refer to the prime minister as the Tunku, which means prince, because of his royal ancestry.
Iranians call him "kuseh," the shark: some say for the political ruthlessness and cunning that lie behind his smile and sly wit, others say for his lack of facial hair, revealing his Mongolian ancestry, in a nation of bearded men.
Anti-Semitism and McCarthyism make the accusation of "dual loyalty" as a matter of taste, inflicted on persons by reasons of their ancestry, or the kinds of thoughts in their heads or books on their shelves.
Nine Japanese Americans, including six age 100 and older, have received $20,000 checks at a ceremony kicking off a three-year $1.25 billion program to compensate people imprisoned during World War II because of their ancestry.
Sen. Paul Simon, D-Ill., argued genocide did occur. "People were massacred because of their ancestry," in the Ottoman Empire, he said.
Many grow up with the burden of carrying on the legacy of their entire ancestry, not to mention the wishes of their immediate families.
Census results aren't available yet for 1990, but a decade ago some 616,000 Americans claimed Finnish ancestry.
Blackmer was the first American service member slain in the Philippines since October, when communist rebels killed two Air Force enlisted men, a retired Air Force sergeant and a Filipino civilian of U.S. ancestry.
About 75,000 to 100,000 Americans have Basque ancestry.
"They just want his ancestry recognized for his contributions," she said.
He also said that in order to participate in bidding for the contracts he made an employee's wife who had an Indian relative in her ancestry a 51 percent owner of his company.
Johnson is the son of a Gio, and Taylor is of mixed Americo-Liberian and native ancestry.
Most refugees are continuing to go to Germany, whose constitution grants automatic citizenship to people of German ancestry.
President Bush traces his ancestry to religious dissenters who fled here for the New World, according to a city archivist who says the president also is a distant relative of Vice President Dan Quayle.

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