Ancestral
[æn'sestr(ə)l] or [æn'sɛstrəl]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent; 'ancestral home'; 'ancestral lore'; 'hereditary monarchy'; 'patrimonial estate'; 'transmissible tradition' .
(adj.) of or belonging to or inherited from an ancestor .
阿德拉錄入--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Of, pertaining to, derived from, or possessed by, an ancestor or ancestors; as, an ancestral estate.
亚伦編輯
同義詞及近義詞：
a. Hereditary, patrimonial.
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例句/造句/用法:
- The Neolithic men of Europe were white men ancestral to the modern Europeans. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- In the ancestral lands of the south-east men had already been sowing wheat perhaps for thousands of years. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Now, all these were more or less ancestral to living forms, and all have brains relatively much smaller than their living representatives. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The red eyes of the ancestral ape had come back into the world. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- It looks in at the windows and touches the ancestral portraits with bars and patches of brightness never contemplated by the painters. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Long before men were men, the ancestral ape was a proprietor. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Mrs. Archer ignored the allusion to the ancestral cuisine and Mr. Jackson continued with deliberation: No, she was NOT at the ball. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- He gratified the conservative instincts of the priests by packing off the local gods back to their ancestral temples. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Only our ancestral deity sitting upon the centre and navel of the earth will be trusted by us if we have any sense, in an affair of such magnitude. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
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