ancestral

英 [ænˈsestrəl]

美 [ænˈsestrəl]

adj.  祖先的; 祖传的

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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

• 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。
• Unlike jews, Gypsies have had no known ancestral land to hark back to.
  吉普塞人和犹太人不同，他们没有可以回想起来的已知的祖居地。
• You insist you know where you are but they it is part of their ancestral wisdom know better.
  你坚持说，知道自己在哪里，但他们，作为古老智慧的继承者，知道得比你清楚。
• 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。
• They kept their ancestral customs. My generation behaves differently from my father's and grandfather's.
  他们保持了祖辈的习俗。我这一代人和我父辈及祖辈表现不同。
• They are black, and Israel welcomes them to immigrate to their ancestral homeland.
  他们拥有黑色，而以色列欢迎他们回归其祖先的家园。
• With each recollection I intended to release the ancestral karma.
  在每一次回忆中，我意愿释放我的祖先业力。
• His veins were full of ancestral blood that was rotten with this sort of unconscious brutality.
  他的血管里，充满了祖代传留的，由于这种不自觉的残忍而腐朽的血液。
• Each big families all have own ancestral hall, is consecrating this family ancestor in there.
  每个大家庭都有自己的宗祠，在那里供奉着这个家庭的祖先。
• 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。