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Ancestral Ancestor Family Modern 祖先的;祖传的 Long Adj Home

Ancestral is an adjective related to ancestors, such as an ancestral home or belongings, describing family members from the past.

“Ancestral” 是一个形容词,指与祖先有关的,如祖先的家园或祖传的物品;它描述了属于或来自过去的家庭成员。

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/ænse̱strəl/
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[ADJ 形容词]祖先的;祖传的 You use ancestral to refer to a person's family in former times, especially when the family is important and has property or land which they have had for a long time.
  [usu ADJ n]
  • ...the family's ancestral home in southern Germany.

    这个家族在德国南部的祖居

  • ...the ancestral portraits in the hallway.

    走廊里祖先的画像


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ancestoran‧ces‧tor /ˈænsəstə, -ses- $ -sestər/ ●●○ noun [countable]
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1a member of your family who lived a long time agodescendant:  My ancestors were French. see thesaurus at
relative
2an animal that lived in the past, that modern animals have developed from:  Lions and house cats evolved from a common ancestor (=the same ancestor).3the form in which a modern machine, vehicle etc first existed SYN  forerunnerancestor of Babbage’s invention was the ancestor of the modern computer.ancestral /ænˈsestrəl/ adjective:  the family’s ancestral home
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ancestral

[æn'sestrəl]

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祖先的(65%),祖传的(35%)
adj.祖先的;祖传的

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