ancestry

英 ['ænsestri] 美 ['ænsestri]

• n. 祖先；家世；门第；血统

双解释义

n. (名词)

1. [C][U]列祖列宗

   the family or the race of people that you are descended from

英英释义

Noun:

1. the descendants of one individual;

   "his entire lineage has been warriors"
   

2. inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline

例句

用作名词 (n.)

1. Many of the early settlers in America had English ancestry.
   许多早期美国移民的祖先都是英国人。
2. He cames of a good ancestry.
   他家世很好。
3. He is an American of French ancestry.
   他是法国血统的美国人。

常见句型

用作名词 (n.)

1. Many of the early settlers in America had English ancestry.
   许多美洲大陆上早期殖民者有英国血统。
2. These buildings have an ancestry which can be traced back to Greece and Rome.
   这些建筑物历史悠久,可上溯至古希腊古罗马时代。
3. He was able to trace his ancestry back over 1000 years.
   他将自己的世系追溯到了1000年以前。
4. He boasted of his ancestry.
   他夸耀自己出身名门。
5. She takes great pride in her ancestry.
   她对自己的家世感到自豪。
6. He is of noble ancestry.
   他出身贵族。
7. Most white people are of European ancestry.
   白人大多具有欧洲血统。
8. Public schools admit children of all ancestries and religions.
   公立学校招收各种家庭和宗教背景的学生。
9. His wife was of royal ancestry.
   他的妻子是王族的后裔。
10. He was proud of his Native American ancestry.
    他为自己美洲土著的血统而自豪。

经典引文

• 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

词汇搭配

用作名词 (n.)

动词+～

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

形容词+～

• lineal ancestry 直系祖先

～+名词

• ancestry distinction 家门显贵

介词+～

• 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

词语用法

n. (名词)

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。

近反义词

【近义词】

• lineage 家系
• descent 下降
• extraction 抽出
• blood 血
• nationality 国籍
• pedigree 家谱
• origin 起源
• stock 存货
• parentage 出身
• line 线
• stem 柄
• heritage 遗产
• stemma 家谱
• filiation 子女对父母的关系...
• derivation 派生
• blood line 血统
• bloodline 血统
• line of descent 血统系, 同一血脉的后代...