ancestral

英 [ænˈsestrəl]

美 [ænˈsestrəl]

adj.  祖先的; 祖传的

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Collins.1 / BNC.11879 / COCA.8966

柯林斯词典

• ADJ 祖先的；祖传的
  You useancestralto 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.
  1. ...the family's ancestral home in southern Germany.
     这个家族在德国南部的祖居
  2. ...the ancestral portraits in the hallway.
     走廊里祖先的画像

英英释义

adj

• inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent
  1. ancestral home
  2. ancestral lore
  3. hereditary monarchy
  4. patrimonial estate
  5. transmissible tradition
  Synonym:hereditarypatrimonialtransmissible
• of or belonging to or inherited from an ancestor

双语例句

• They sold their ancestral estate long ago.
  他们早就变卖了祖上传下来的产业。
• Presumably in the common ancestral line to dinosaurs and crocodiles and birds.
  可能是恐龙、鳄鱼和鸟的共同祖先。
• My ancestral home is Jiangsu but I was born in Daqing Oilfield.
  我老家是江苏的，但我又生在大庆油田。
• Zhang Fei ancestral temples have spread to all the country during Ming and Qing dynasties.
  张飞祠庙在历史时期得到了很大的发展，明清更是遍及全国各地。
• It is Sirius Black's ancestral home, and the headquarters of the Order of the Phoenix.
  它现在是小天狼星布莱克祖传的房子，和凤凰社的总部。
• The old rule barring women and poor people from the banquets in the ancestral temples has also been broken.
  女子和穷人不能进祠堂吃酒的老例，也被打破。
• In ancient society, Wu was the medium possessing psychic power to communicate with deities and ancestral spirits;
  因为巫在古代社会中，是可以和神只，祖灵沟通的重要媒介。
• Ancestral worship has long been at the heart of Orcish religion.
  祖先的崇拜之物已经深深的植根语兽人的宗教之中。
• I forgot about the ancestral rite today.
  我忘记今天要拜祭祖先了。
• Driven to desperation, my grandfather hanged himself on a tree beside our ancestral graves.
  被逼得无路可走，我祖父在祖坟旁的一棵树上吊死了。