Progenitors
[prəʊ'dʒenɪtəz]
例句/造句/用法:
- There may be, there probably are, thousands of deposits still untouched containing countless fragments and vestiges of man and his progenitors. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Small portable clocks, the progenitors of the modern watch, commenced to appear about 1500. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- One's mind hurries back over past centuries, and then asks, could our progenitors have been men like these? 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- The gunpowder experiments of Huygens and Papin were not successful, but they were the progenitors of similar inventions made two centuries thereafter. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- I hope that I may not be misconstrued into saying that the progenitors of whales did actually possess mouths lamellated like the beak of a duck. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- I believe that animals are descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
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