ancestry的词典解释

1.世系；血统
Yourancestry is the fact that you are descended from certain people.

ancestry的意思

e.g. ...a family who could trace theirancestry back to the sixteenth century.
世系可上溯到16世纪的家族

1. 祖先：我对他对移民的缺乏了解感到遗憾,其实不论拉美、澳洲还是在海南,移民崇拜的多数是他们的首领(chief)而不是他们的祖先(ancestry). 这是因为移民是一个五湖四海集聚的群体,如果还在谈什么血缘、帮派那他们就没有凝聚力了,

2. 世系：然而,最近5年来的遗传学和考古学发现改变了这幅图景,催生出一系列新视角,洞悉家猫的世系(ancestry)以及家猫与人类关系的演化. silvestris)这个单一种的后代,但他们无法证实这一点. 此外,这个种的分布范围并不局限于地球上的某个小区域.

3. 祖先,先辈：origin 出身 |ancestry 祖先,先辈 | ancestors, forebears, forefathers 祖先

4. ancestry

4. 祖先(集合称), 家系, 血统：for a season 一会儿 |ancestry 祖先(集合称), 家系, 血统 | Pa. Pennsylvania 美国宾夕法尼亚州州名

• have Scottish ancestry祖籍苏格兰
• trace one's ancestry寻根

• lineal ancestry直系祖先

• ancestry distinction家门显贵

• a family of Danish ancestry祖先是丹麦人的家庭
• a youth of royal ancestry出身皇族的青年
• an American of Chinese ancestry中国血统的美国人
• citizens of foreign ancestry外国血统的公民
• be born of good ancestry出身名门
• be of French ancestry有法国血统

• Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious.

  出自：Addison

• I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule.

  出自：W. S. Gilbert

• Somewhere in the ancestry of Janus there must have been a happy 'nick' which gave him the peculiar characteristics of the Quarter horse.

  出自：M. C. Self

• The explanation of consumer behaviour has its ancestry in a much older problem.

  出自：J. K. Galbraith

1. ancestry的基本意思是“列祖列宗”,是“祖先”的统称,用作可数名词时常用单数形式,也可用作不可数名词。