Ancestry
['ænsestrɪ] or ['ænsɛstri]
解释:
(n.) Condition as to ancestors; ancestral lineage; hence, birth or honorable descent.
(n.) A series of ancestors or progenitors; lineage, or those who compose the line of natural descent.
录入:弗农
同义词及近义词：
n. [1]. Lineage, family, race, house, line of ancestors.[2]. Pedigree, stock, genealogy, descent.
整理:利亚
例句:
- Wert thou to fly, what would ensue but the reversal of thy arms, the dishonour of thine ancestry, the degradation of thy rank? 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- But let me see thee use the dress and costume of thy English ancestry--no short cloaks, no gay bonnets, no fantastic plumage in my decent household. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Were the pride of ancestry, the patrician spirit, the gentle courtesies and refined pursuits, splendid attributes of rank, to be erased among us? 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- He that would be the son of Cedric, must show himself of English ancestry. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Dr. Keith, swayed by the jaw-bone, does not think that _Eoanthropus_, in spite of its name, is a creature in the direct ancestry of man. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- The point under discussion was, how far any singular gift in an individual was due to his ancestry and how far to his own early training. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
- Possibly the implement-using disposition was already present in the Mesozoic ancestry from which we are descended. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- He was growling again, and whistling a half-strangled whistle, being an inheritance from the bulldog side of his ancestry. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- He came of a foreign ancestry by the mother's side, and was himself born and partly reared on a foreign soil. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- Yet in all the relics of the Mesozoic time we find no certain memorials of his ancestry. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- So too did the first-known step of our own ancestry upon land, the amphibia. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- The position of the Eoanthropus is very uncertain: it may be as early as the Pliocene] BOOK II THE MAKING OF MEN VIII THE ANCESTRY OF MAN[20] § 1. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- But man walks so well and runs so swiftly as to suggest a very long ancestry upon the ground. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
录入:泰茜