Ancestors

例句:

• We are not apt to imagine our posterity will excel us, or equal our ancestors. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• Mr Lightwood murmured 'Vigorous Saxon spirit--Mrs Boffin's ancestors--bowmen--Agincourt and Cressy. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Possibly he did not even have a name, but in some way he hit upon a scheme for throwing stones farther, harder and straighter than any of his ancestors. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The simple candle of our ancestors was now replaced by the oil lamp, which gave a brighter, steadier, and more permanent illumination. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• The shotgun and rifle, the familiar weapons of the sportsman and the foot-soldier, are not the ancestors of the cannon, as might be surmised. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• No one had ever before heard Adrian allude to the rights of his ancestors. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Our not remote ancestors held the right of life and death over the surrounding vulgar. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• It is not certain whether the Neolithic pastoral people who left those remains were the direct ancestors of the later Egyptians. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Our ancestors were idle for want of a sufficient encouragement to industry. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• But all machines, however complicated in appearance, are in reality but modifications and combinations of one or more of four simple machines devised long ago by our remote ancestors. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• DEAR SON,--I have ever had a pleasure in obtaining any little anecdotes of my ancestors. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• Our ancestors have transmitted to us their physical forms, but not their brains, not their heroism. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• It seemed as if she was not an imposter any more, and was coming to the home of her ancestors. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• They fear the black pirates of Barsoom, O Prince, she said, from whom may our first ancestors preserve us. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• The myth is not one of the outgrown crudities of our pagan ancestors. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• My ancestors were country squires, who appear to have led much the same life as is natural to their class. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• But bird-like though they were, they were not birds nor the ancestors of birds. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• In the Babylonian and Assyrian world the traders were predominantly the Semitic Arameans, the ancestors of the modern Syrians. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• As peoples develop towards nomadism, they seem to lose even such primitive religion and magic as their Neolithic ancestors professed. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• When you see the chorus throw incense on the altar, think not that they are sacrificing to the wine-god of their ancestors. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• Come back to the ways of our common ancestors, come back to the light of kindliness and fellowship. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• For what we have received from our ancestors is only a fraction of what we are, or may become. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• My ancestors had been for many years counsellors and syndics; and my father had filled several public situations with honour and reputation. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• I asked, feeling the hot blood of my fighting ancestors leap in my veins as I awaited her reply. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• The voices of our dead ancestors, whose portraits hang on the wall, and the eloquent words of Demosthenes and Cicero would be preserved to us. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Our ancestors with a candle at a distance of one foot from a book were as well off as we are with an incandescent light four feet away. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• The Gun of Our Ancestors. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• At that time in Northern Mexico the mule, or his ancestors, the horse and the ass, was seldom used except for the saddle or pack. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Certainly either mammals, or the ancestors of the mammals, must have lived throughout the Mesozoic period. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• It must have been an heir-loom, and shows that she had ancestors. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.

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