ancestral

英 [æn'sestrəl] 美 [æn'sestrəl]

• adj. 祖先的；祖传的

详尽释义

adj. 形容词

1. 祖先的
2. 古色古香的
3. 遗传的
4. 祖（宗）传（下）的

n. 名词

1. 祖宗

英英释义

Adjective:

1. inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent;

   "ancestral home"
   "ancestral lore"
   "hereditary monarchy"
   "patrimonial estate"
   "transmissible tradition"
   

2. of or belonging to or inherited from an ancestor

例句

用作形容词 (adj.)

1. Her ancestral home is China.
   她的祖居是中国。
2. They kept their ancestral customs.
   他们保持了祖辈的习俗。
3. We should study our ancestral achievements.
   我们应该学习祖先的成就。
4. They sold their ancestral estate long ago.
   他们祖上传下来的产业早就变卖掉了。
5. We hold the ancestral rights on this herbal medicine.
   我们对这种中药享有祖传的权利。

经典引文

• Kubla heard from far Ancestral voices prophesying war.

  出自： Coleridge

• Why should one feel it to be intolerable unless one had some kind of ancestral memory that things had once been different?

  出自： G. Orwell

词汇搭配

• ancestor 祖宗
• ancestral cell [医] 祖细胞, 初...
• ancestral element 祖元素
• ancestral form 祖先形

近反义词

【近义词】

• family 家庭
• familial 家庭的
• inherited 继承的
• patrimonial 祖传的
• transmissible 能传送的
• hereditary 世袭的