| 词汇 | family-tree |
| 释义 | family tree noun[ C ] uk /ˌfæm.əl.i ˈtriː/ us /ˌfæm.əl.i ˈtriː/ a drawing that shows the relationships between the different members of a family, especially over a long period of time（尤指年代久远的）家谱，家系图 your ancestors ancestorI discovered that one of my ancestors was a member of King Henry VIII's court. forebearMy forebears were enslaved and brought to this country. forefatherI visited the land of my forefathers. ancestryDNA tests tell me that I have Central Asian ancestry. extractionMy family is of Italian extraction. family treeSince many families will be gathering for the holiday, it's a perfect time to create a family tree. bubaone/DigitalVision Vectors/GettyImages Family: ancestors & descendants ancestor ancestral ancestry be in the/someone's bloodidiom blood is thicker than wateridiom descent distaff forbear forebear forefather genealogy generation generationally heraldic heraldically heraldry progenitor run in the familyidiom sandwich generation successor He had come to Cornwall in pursuit of the last pieces of evidence for his family tree, and some local busybody had told him that I was versed in Cornish antiquities and heraldry. I wonder, Kay spoke up demurely, "which ancestor from which side of the family tree put that idea in his head, father?" So I determined to see what I could do in the way of making up a family tree. The family tree was complete. family tree | American Dictionaryfamily tree noun[ C ] us/ˈfæm·ə·li ˈtri, ˈfæm·li/ a drawing that shows all the members of a family, usually over a long period of time, and how they are related to each other Examples of family treefamily tree But he wanted the burden to be nominal and unrelated to the tyro's familytree. The traditional ' migration ' model takes lines linking linguistic phenomena on familytree diagrams and interprets them historically in terms of lengthy migrations. If there is a family history of bleeding, a familytree and the age of presentation in affected relatives may provide useful information. Linguists use familytree diagrams as a form of pictorial shorthand to illustrate the relationship and development of languages and groups of languages within families. These relations are best described by means of a familytree. Evolution of the angiosperms : calibrating the familytree. Familytree diagrams are thus static models that greatly oversimplify complex patterns of linguistic change. Figure 5 shows a realistic example, in familytree form with all connecting lines horizontal or vertical. It is likely that most people (if asked) could provide a crude 'familytree' of their musical tastes. There is no necessary one-to-one relationship between the history of a language and the history of the people who speak it today, nor between a familytree diagram and migrations. Each node on a language familytree is supposed to represent the starting point of an innovation or set of innovations shared by all the languages below the node. Thus, some of the innovations that have come to characterize a language or sub-group today may have occurred subsequent to its node on the familytree. Lexicostatistics thus produces the familiar bifurcating familytree model of linguistic development, with each pair of languages stemming from an earlier language, as discussed further below. If a psychoanalytic approach is to survive, then there must be ways of pruning this familytree, so that the body of theory is strengthened rather than continually branching out. The connexins and their familytree. See all examples of family tree These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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