单词ancestor
n.: 祖先；祖宗；（动物的）原始种型；（机器的）原型
网络: 先辈；先人；先驱
祖宗；祖先:
a person in your family who lived a long time ago
（动物的）原始种型:
an animal that lived in the past which a modern animal has developed from
（机器的）原型:
an early form of a machine which later became more developed
【法律】被继承人
【生物学】先祖,原种
世代
原始现象
先驱者
〔物〕原始粒子
长辈
原型
祖系体
祖先,祖宗
复数：ancestors
n.forebearantecedentforefatherpredecessorprogenitor
n.descendantsuccessor
So back in 1982 I said, "Well perhaps the elephant had an aquatic ancestor. " Peals of merry laughter!
1982年我说过大象可能有水生始祖一阵开心的笑声！
He had another spiritual ancestor -- in terms of transparent diplomacy, at least -- in Leon Trotsky.
他还有另一个精神领袖式的祖先——至少在透明外交方面——列夫•托洛茨基。
He did not know from which part of Africa his ancestor had come.
他不知道他的祖先来自非洲的哪一部分
The spirit had not come from any ancestor, it had come out of the unknown.
灵魂不是来自祖先，而是来自未知世界。
Your ancestor was one of the twelve knights who assisted the Lord of Estremavilla in Normandy in his conquest of Glamorganshire.
你的祖先是辅佐诺曼底的埃斯彻玛维拉勋爵征服格拉摩甘郡的十二个骑士当中的一个。
Within the last 200, 000 years, we all share an ancestor, a single person, Mitochondrial Eve -- you might have heard about her -- in Africa.
DNA把历史弄得很清楚，在过去的二十万年中，我们有共同的祖先，同一个人，线粒体Eve—你可能听说过她—在非洲。
A clone refers to one or more offspring derived from a single ancestor, whose genetic composition is identical to that of the ancestor.
克隆是指来自同一祖先的一个或多个后代，其基因构成与其祖先完全相同。
It was not right, thought Han Fei-tzu, for his wife to die before him: her ancestor-of-the-heart had outlived her husband.
这是不对的，韩非子想，他的妻子在他之前死去是不对的：因为她的心灵之祖活得比她的丈夫要长久。
I feel that I have become to a ancestor in the dark, under the starry sky and with daylight warm on my face.
脸上是余烬的温暖，周围是暗夜，头上是星光闪烁的夜空，我感到自己变成了原始时期的先民。
So, Homo erectus was the first human ancestor to leave Africa and begin its spread across the globe.
所以，直立猿类是第一个离开非洲的人类祖先，之后他们就开始遍布全球了。