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单词 ancestry
释义
ancestry
noun[UorC]
uk
/ˈæn.ses.tri/us
/ˈæn.ses.tri/
yourancestorswholivedalongtimeago, or theoriginofyourfamily:
祖先，家系
He wasproudof hisNativeAmerican ancestry.作为一个印第安人的后代，他非常自豪。
Hiswifewasofroyalancestry.他的妻子有皇室血统。
Thefamilyhastraceditsancestryback totheNormaninvaders.该家族的祖先可上溯到诺曼征服者。
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples
your ancestors
  • ancestorI discovered that one of my ancestors was a member of King Henry VIII's court.
  • forebearMy forebears were enslaved and brought to this country.
  • forefatherI visited the land of my forefathers.
  • ancestryDNA tests tell me that I have Central Asian ancestry.
  • extractionMy family is of Italian extraction.
  • family treeSince many families will be gathering for the holiday, it's a perfect time to create a family tree.
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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Family: ancestors & descendants
  • ancestor
  • ancestral
  • be in the/someone'sbloodidiom
  • blood
  • blood is thicker than wateridiom
  • bloodline
  • distaff
  • family tree
  • forbear
  • forebear
  • forefather
  • genealogy
  • generation
  • heraldic
  • heraldry
  • lineage
  • lineal
  • run in the familyidiom
  • sandwich generation
  • successor
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(Definition ofancestryfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofancestry

ancestry
Our ancestries are separated by at least a billion years, during which time our respective genetic determinants of ageing are likely to have diverged dramatically.
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It was a widespread idea that individuals, even whole groups, had intellectual and artistic qualities by virtue of theirancestry.
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The hallmark of the phages' genome structure is genetic mosaicism, reflecting non-homologous recombination events in theirancestry.
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The historicalancestryof such questions is, then, worth further study.
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An example is the anatomy shared by reptiles and mammals, which is evidence of sharedancestry.
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Second, becoming nonmodern again necessarily implies a reworking of our genealogy and of ourancestry.
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When individuals have unknown origin or there are uncertainties in theirancestrythe efficiency of the method is diminished, and several procedures can be followed.
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For one prize-winning essayist, this international audience was to serve as a reminder of a shared geneticancestryand collective linguistic capacity.
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Such scientific data would be invaluable in tracing our ownancestry.
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The majority of patients were black (n=121, 51.9 %), followed by patients of mixed racialancestry(n=101, 43.3 %).
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Ancestrysearches were also conducted to identify further pertinent resources.
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In this way clinical medicine defined itself in opposition not only to disciplinary others but to its own disciplinaryancestryas well.
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This proportion might indicate a commonancestry, or be due to a consistent asymmetrical substitutional bias.
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Closely related species may share characteristics because of commonancestry, a feature not recognized by analyses that treat species as independent data points.
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These pedigrees certainly served the purpose of legitimizing the power of the kings whoseancestrythey claimed to trace.
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