Genealogy
[dʒiːnɪ'ælədʒɪ;dʒen-] or ['dʒinɪ'ælədʒi]
解释:
(noun.) the study or investigation of ancestry and family history.
(noun.) successive generations of kin.
弗兰克编辑--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) An account or history of the descent of a person or family from an ancestor; enumeration of ancestors and their children in the natural order of succession; a pedigree.
(n.) Regular descent of a person or family from a progenitor; pedigree; lineage.
哈里特编辑
同义词及近义词:
n. [1]. Pedigree, list of ancestors.[2]. Descent, derivation.
安托万整理
解释:
n. history of the descent of families: the pedigree of a particular person or family.—adj. Genealog′ical.—adv. Genealog′ically.—v.i. Geneal′ogise to investigate or treat of genealogy.—n. Geneal′ogist one who studies or traces genealogies or descents.—Genealogical tree the lineage of a family or person under the form of a tree with roots branches &c.
安妮特手打
娱乐性解释:
n. An account of one's descent from an ancestor who did not particularly care to trace his own.
录入:内丽
例句:
- For, it is a remarkable fact in genealogy that no De Any ones ever came over with Anybody else. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- It scarcely seemed, however, to afford Mr Meagles as much satisfaction as the Barnacle genealogy had done. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- So our mercurial Ladislaw has a queer genealogy! 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- Her family took no interest in genealogy, so that my grandfather, who died when I was sixteen years old, knew only back to his grandfather. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U.S.格兰特的个人回忆录.
- Our classifications will come to be, as far as they can be so made, genealogies; and will then truly give what may be called the plan of creation. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
哈洛录入