ancestor/forefather/progenitor.导航词义：祖先

1. ancestor:n. 祖先，祖宗.用在谱系或历史书中，强调带有父系或母系嫡系血缘关系，是比祖父母更早的家族成员，无性别之分，女性祖先则常用 ancestress。

His ancestors came from France.

他的先祖来自法国。

My ancestors have lived on this farm for many generations.

我的祖先已在这个农场生活了好几代。

2. forefather:n. （尤指男性的）祖先，祖宗.主要用于正式文体或文学作品，较少用于日常生活或历史书中。

Our forefathers were the first to invent gunpowder.

我们的祖先最先发明了火药。

3. progenitor:n. （人或动物的）祖先；先驱.不强调血缘关系，也不带家族或种族色彩，只强调遗传性；还可引申指某种观念等的创始者。

You must do much better than your progenitors.

你一定要比你祖先做得更好。

He is a progenitor of cubism.

他是立体派的创始人。

全部

1·Her Chinese friends referred to the empress as their venerable ancestor.

她的中国朋友们称那位皇后是令他们尊敬的祖先。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

2·Their ancestor is different from that of micro bats.

它们的祖先与微型蝙蝠的祖先不同。

3·My ancestor was a preacher, traveling around the countryside.

我的祖先是一位游历于乡间的传教士。

4·The common detailed design found among the pinnipeds probably indicates a common ancestor.

在鳍足类动物中发现的共同的细节设计，这可能说明了它们有一个共同的祖先。

5·There is only one explanation for that at the molecular level, which is a common ancestor.

对分子水平只有一种解释，那就是共同的祖先。

6·There's the whole idea—we've already given you some sense that the Greeks were ancestor worshippers.

这就是整个观点——我们已经给了你们古希腊人对祖先甚是尊敬的感觉。

7·They share a more recent ancestor with Drosera sundews, which can also curl their leaves over their prey.

它们与毛毡苔有着更近代的祖先，毛毡苔也可以将树叶卷起来盖住猎物。

8·Explorer Roy Chapman Andrews argued at the time that the whale must be a throwback to a land-living ancestor.

探险家罗伊·查普曼·安德鲁斯当时认为，鲸鱼一定是一种返祖的陆地生物。

9·Talbot's calotype was the first negative-to-positive process and the direct ancestor of the modern photograph.

塔尔博特的“卡罗式摄影法”是第一种用负片洗印正片的方法，这种方法是现代摄影技术的直系鼻祖。

10·Look to many of history's cultural symbols, and there you'll find an ancestor of Frosty, the snowman in the movie Frozen.

看看历史上许多的文化符号，你会在那里找到《冰雪奇缘》中弗罗斯特的祖先。

祖先

1·Her Chinese friends referred to the empress as their venerable ancestor.

她的中国朋友们称那位皇后是令他们尊敬的祖先。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

2·My ancestor was a preacher, traveling around the countryside.

我的祖先是一位游历于乡间的传教士。

3·There is only one explanation for that at the molecular level, which is a common ancestor.

对分子水平只有一种解释，那就是共同的祖先。

4·The common detailed design found among the pinnipeds probably indicates a common ancestor.

在鳍足类动物中发现的共同的细节设计，这可能说明了它们有一个共同的祖先。

5·There's the whole idea—we've already given you some sense that the Greeks were ancestor worshippers.

这就是整个观点——我们已经给了你们古希腊人对祖先甚是尊敬的感觉。

始祖

1·Aristotle is considered the ancestor of the varying sorts of thought about form, and it's this move that he makes in Poetics that engenders this possibility.

亚里士多德被认为是各种形式思想的始祖，正是他在《诗学》中做出的这一举动，才产生了这种可能性。

2·The first mistake is that evolution does notteach that humans descended from monkeys; it states that both have acommon ancestor.

最明显的错误就是，进化论并没有告诉我们，人类是从猴子进化而来的，它只是说明，人类与猴子有共同的始祖。

3·Among many instruments that arrived in Europe through the Middle East is the lute, an ancestor of the violin.

从中东传入欧洲的乐器中，鲁特琴成为小提琴的始祖。

4·This ancestor was the result of a merging: one cell swallowed, imperfectly, another cell.

这位始祖是细胞合并的结果。

5·Five Dragon content framework: the Han Chinese myths and legends of ancient human ancestor Goddess.

五龙神内涵构架：是汉民族远古神话传说中的人类始祖女娲。

祖

1·There are Nubian giraffe that some scientists think may be the closest to the animal’s original ancestor; the sparse savannah and thick heat are its original habitat.

还有努比亚长颈鹿，有些科学家认为它们可能是与动物原祖关系最近的物种，植被稀疏而酷热的大草原就是它们原始的栖息之所。

2·The immediate ancestor of Polynesian culture is referred to as Lapita, a complex culture extending from the Bismarck Archipelago to Tonga and Samoa.

波利尼西亚文化的嫡祖是“拉皮塔文化”，其最早发源于俾斯麦群岛，后延伸至汤加与萨摩亚群岛形成一个文化圈。

3·In the life may give the Arab League ancestor one kind of feeling of satisfaction only drives the motorcycle, this also is really his only professional skill.

生活中唯一可以给予阿祖一种满足感就是开电单车，这也确是他唯一的一技之长。

4·As to the surname of Huang who regard Huangxiang as their ancestor, it is just a historical and cultural phenomenon.

至于天下黄姓尊黄香为祖，那只是一种历史文化现象。

5·Miluo River finally turns the earliest ancestor poet who threw himself into it into racing dragon boats lasting for thousands of years.

汩罗江终把一个投入碧波的诗祖，化作千古竞渡的龙舟。

老祖宗

1·I was a spring onion, standing way, which take me of dip in big sauce, I called his ancestor.

我是一根葱，站的路当中，哪个拿我蘸大酱，我骂他老祖宗。

2·The ancestor of the goat family.

羊族的老祖宗。

先民

1·Some old customs can not only proof and supply historical documents, but also can carry up living visage of ancestor in the high antiquity.

某些残存的民俗文化不仅可与文献史料相印证，补考古资料之不足，还有助于追溯远古先民的生活面貌。

2·As to the ancestor in the high antiquity, the rock painting was not only a consequence of their expressions, but also monopolized on the means of visual affiliation in the front-character epoch.

对远古先民而言，岩画不仅是一种表达的结果，而且在前文字时代，在视觉联系方式领域中保持着垄断地位。

3·The plants in the Book of Poetry record the way of life about ancestors by the exiting of nature and cultural symbol, expressing the world of ancestor's emotion.

《诗经》中的植物以自然和文化符号的存在记录了先民生活的状态和方式，真实传达了先民的感情世界。

先人

1·ARabari woman in Gujarat visits the grave of an ancestor.

古吉拉特的一位拉巴尼妇女拜谒先人的陵墓。

(1)ancestor worship祖先崇拜；祭祖；敬奉祖先