| 英语单词 | ancestry |
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| 英美音标 | 英 ['ænsestri] 美 ['ænsestri] |
| 中文释义 | n.祖先;家世;门第;血统 |
| 英语例句 | (1) He cames of a good ancestry. (2) He is an American of French ancestry. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 他家世很好。 (2) 他是法国血统的美国人。 |
| vocabulary简明 | Have a family tree hanging on the wall? Then you know a bit about your ancestry, or family history and lineage. |
| vocabulary扩展 | If you think ancestry sounds like ancestor, then you're headed in the right direction. Ancestry is basically a history of ancestors, a trail of where your family started and all the descendants that followed. But ancestry goes much further than just your great-great-grand uncle's brother. You can also use the word ancestry to refer to the background of things other than people — such as the ancestry of a building or the ancestry of a nation. |
| 柯林斯解释 | 1 [N-COUNT 可数名词]世系;血统 Your ancestry is the fact that you are descended from certain people. [usu with supp]
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