| 词汇 | ancestry |
| 释义 | ancestry noun[ U or C ] uk /ˈæn.ses.tri/ us /ˈæn.ses.tri/ your ancestors who lived a long time ago, or the origin of your family: 祖先，家系 He was proud of his Native American ancestry.作为一个印第安人的后代，他非常自豪。 His wife was of royal ancestry.他的妻子有皇室血统。 The family has traced its ancestry back to the Norman invaders.该家族的祖先可上溯到诺曼征服者。 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. Family: ancestors & descendants ancestor ancestral be in the/someone's bloodidiom blood is thicker than wateridiom bloodline distaff family tree forbear forebear forefather genealogy generation generationally heraldic heraldically heraldry progenitor run in the familyidiom sandwich generation successor Examples of ancestryancestry Our ancestries are separated by at least a billion years, during which time our respective genetic determinants of ageing are likely to have diverged dramatically. It was a widespread idea that individuals, even whole groups, had intellectual and artistic qualities by virtue of their ancestry. The hallmark of the phages' genome structure is genetic mosaicism, reflecting non-homologous recombination events in their ancestry. The historical ancestry of such questions is, then, worth further study. An example is the anatomy shared by reptiles and mammals, which is evidence of shared ancestry. Second, becoming nonmodern again necessarily implies a reworking of our genealogy and of our ancestry. When individuals have unknown origin or there are uncertainties in their ancestry the efficiency of the method is diminished, and several procedures can be followed. For one prize-winning essayist, this international audience was to serve as a reminder of a shared genetic ancestry and collective linguistic capacity. Such scientific data would be invaluable in tracing our own ancestry. The majority of patients were black (n=121, 51.9 %), followed by patients of mixed racial ancestry (n=101, 43.3 %). Ancestry searches were also conducted to identify further pertinent resources. In this way clinical medicine defined itself in opposition not only to disciplinary others but to its own disciplinary ancestry as well. This proportion might indicate a common ancestry, or be due to a consistent asymmetrical substitutional bias. Closely related species may share characteristics because of common ancestry, a feature not recognized by analyses that treat species as independent data points. These pedigrees certainly served the purpose of legitimizing the power of the kings whose ancestry they claimed to trace. 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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