Ancestors

例句/造句/用法:

• We are not apt to imagine our posterity will excel us, or equal our ancestors. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
• Mr Lightwood murmured 'Vigorous Saxon spirit--Mrs Boffin's ancestors--bowmen--Agincourt and Cressy. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
• 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. 神奇的知識之書.
• 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. 科學通論.
• 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. 神奇的知識之書.
• No one had ever before heard Adrian allude to the rights of his ancestors. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
• Our not remote ancestors held the right of life and death over the surrounding vulgar. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
• It is not certain whether the Neolithic pastoral people who left those remains were the direct ancestors of the later Egyptians. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
• Our ancestors were idle for want of a sufficient encouragement to industry. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
• 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. 科學通論.
• DEAR SON,--I have ever had a pleasure in obtaining any little anecdotes of my ancestors. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
• Our ancestors have transmitted to us their physical forms, but not their brains, not their heroism. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
• 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·薩克雷. 名利場.
• They fear the black pirates of Barsoom, O Prince, she said, from whom may our first ancestors preserve us. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
• The myth is not one of the outgrown crudities of our pagan ancestors. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
• My ancestors were country squires, who appear to have led much the same life as is natural to their class. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
• But bird-like though they were, they were not birds nor the ancestors of birds. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
• In the Babylonian and Assyrian world the traders were predominantly the Semitic Arameans, the ancestors of the modern Syrians. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
• As peoples develop towards nomadism, they seem to lose even such primitive religion and magic as their Neolithic ancestors professed. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
• When you see the chorus throw incense on the altar, think not that they are sacrificing to the wine-god of their ancestors. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
• Come back to the ways of our common ancestors, come back to the light of kindliness and fellowship. 愛德格·賴斯·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. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
• My ancestors had been for many years counsellors and syndics; and my father had filled several public situations with honour and reputation. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
• I asked, feeling the hot blood of my fighting ancestors leap in my veins as I awaited her reply. 愛德格·賴斯·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. 十九世紀發明進展.
• 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. 科學通論.
• The Gun of Our Ancestors. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
• 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·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
• Certainly either mammals, or the ancestors of the mammals, must have lived throughout the Mesozoic period. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
• It must have been an heir-loom, and shows that she had ancestors. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.

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