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

• Ancestral Awakening and Improved Water Shield will now affect Riptide.
  先祖觉醒和强化水盾对激流生效了。
• Ancestral worship has long been at the heart of Orcish religion.
  祖先的崇拜之物已经深深的植根语兽人的宗教之中。
• They sold their ancestral estate long ago.
  他们早就变卖了祖上传下来的产业。
• As you know, my ancestral home is in Taishan in Guangdong province.
  正如你们所知，我的祖籍在广东省台山。
• I forgot about the ancestral rite today.
  我忘记今天要拜祭祖先了。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• The world and the regional, national and international news is a mirror of one's own ancestral karma.
  世界和地区、国和国际新闻就是一个人自身家族业力的镜子。
• 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。