ancestral

英[æn'sestrəl] 美[æn'sestrəl]
  • adj. 祖先的;祖传的
TEM4 TOEFL
    adj. (形容词)
    1. 祖先的
    2. 古色古香的
    3. 遗传的
    4. 祖(宗)传(下)的
    n. (名词)
    1. 祖宗

英英释义

Adjective:
  1. inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent;

    "ancestral home"
    "ancestral lore"
    "hereditary monarchy"
    "patrimonial estate"
    "transmissible tradition"

  2. of or belonging to or inherited from an ancestor

1. His ancestral home is in France.
他原籍法国.

来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

2. He is the stereotyped monster of the horror films and the adventure books, and an obvious ( though not perhaps strictly scientific ) link with our ancestral past.
它们是恐怖电影和惊险小说中的老一套的怪物, 并且与我们的祖先有着明显的 ( 虽然可能没有科学的 ) 联系.

来自《用法词典》

3. The Magnoliales are not seen as an ancestral group.
木兰目不能看作是一个祖先类群.

来自辞典例句

4. They kept their ancestral customs.
他们保持了祖辈的习俗.

来自辞典例句

5. All the Pomoideae were allopolyploids drived 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.

来自辞典例句

    用作形容词 (adj.)
    1. Her ancestral home is China.
      她的祖居是中国。
    2. They kept their ancestral customs.
      他们保持了祖辈的习俗。
    3. We should study our ancestral achievements.
      我们应该学习祖先的成就。
    4. They sold their ancestral estate long ago.
      他们祖上传下来的产业早就变卖掉了。
    5. We hold the ancestral rights on this herbal medicine.
      我们对这种中药享有祖传的权利。