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ancestor n.祖宗；祖先；原种 (1) 节日期间投资者调查了他的祖宗。(2) 他们说他们的祖宗是个有名的猎人，也是个神枪手。(3) 有同一个祖先的叫做亲戚。(4) 我的祖先当中有一位是伟大的学者。(5) 算盘是现代电脑的原型。(6) 这三种生物从同一原种进化而来。 Ante-, a common Latin prefix, means "before." Cedere is Latin for "to go." So, an ancestor is someone who has gone before us. Evolutionary biologists have advanced the theory that all life on earth descends from a common ancestor. Ancestor can also mean "prototype" or "forerunner." The abacus is a distant ancestor of today's supercomputers.

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英 ['ænsestə(r)] 美 ['ænsestər] (1) During the festival the investor investigated his ancestor.(2) They said their ancestor was a famous hunter and a crack hunter.(3) People who share an ancestor are called relatives.(4) One of my ancestors was a great scholar.(5) The abacus is the ancestor of the modern computer.(6) The three species evolved from a single ancestor. An ancestor came before. Your grandmother's grandmother and any relative before her is one of your ancestors. 1[N-COUNT 可数名词]祖宗；祖先 Your ancestors are the people from whom you are descended.   [usu pl]...our daily lives, so different from those of our ancestors...与我们祖先的生活有着天壤之别的我们的日常生活He could trace his ancestors back seven hundred years.他的先祖可以上溯到700年前。2[N-COUNT 可数名词]原种；原型 An ancestor of something modern is an earlier thing from which it developed.   [usu N of n]The direct ancestor of the modern cat was the Kaffir cat of ancient Egypt...现代猫的直系原种是古埃及的卡菲尔猫。The immediate ancestor of rock 'n' roll is rhythm-and-blues.摇滚乐直接源自节奏布鲁斯。

英语单词	ancestor
英美音标	英 ['ænsestə(r)] 美 ['ænsestər]
中文释义	n.祖宗；祖先；原种
英语例句	(1) During the festival the investor investigated his ancestor. (2) They said their ancestor was a famous hunter and a crack hunter. (3) People who share an ancestor are called relatives. (4) One of my ancestors was a great scholar. (5) The abacus is the ancestor of the modern computer. (6) The three species evolved from a single ancestor.
中文例句	(1) 节日期间投资者调查了他的祖宗。 (2) 他们说他们的祖宗是个有名的猎人，也是个神枪手。 (3) 有同一个祖先的叫做亲戚。 (4) 我的祖先当中有一位是伟大的学者。 (5) 算盘是现代电脑的原型。 (6) 这三种生物从同一原种进化而来。
vocabulary简明	An ancestor came before. Your grandmother's grandmother and any relative before her is one of your ancestors.
vocabulary扩展	Ante-, a common Latin prefix, means "before." Cedere is Latin for "to go." So, an ancestor is someone who has gone before us. Evolutionary biologists have advanced the theory that all life on earth descends from a common ancestor. Ancestor can also mean "prototype" or "forerunner." The abacus is a distant ancestor of today's supercomputers.
柯林斯解释	1 [N-COUNT 可数名词]祖宗；祖先 Your ancestors are the people from whom you are descended. [usu pl] ...our daily lives, so different from those of our ancestors... 与我们祖先的生活有着天壤之别的我们的日常生活 He could trace his ancestors back seven hundred years. 他的先祖可以上溯到700年前。 2 [N-COUNT 可数名词]原种；原型 An ancestor of something modern is an earlier thing from which it developed. [usu N of n] The direct ancestor of the modern cat was the Kaffir cat of ancient Egypt... 现代猫的直系原种是古埃及的卡菲尔猫。 The immediate ancestor of rock 'n' roll is rhythm-and-blues. 摇滚乐直接源自节奏布鲁斯。

Ancestor Modern People Abacus Common Latin N Count 可数名词