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单词 family tree
释义
family tree
noun[C]
uk
/ˌfæm.əl.i ˈtriː/us
/ˌfæm.əl.i ˈtriː/
adrawingthatshowstherelationshipsbetween the differentmembersof afamily,especiallyover alongperiodoftime
（尤指年代久远的）家谱，家系图
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
  • ancestry
  • be in the/someone'sbloodidiom
  • blood
  • blood is thicker than wateridiom
  • descent
  • distaff
  • forbear
  • forebear
  • forefather
  • genealogy
  • generation
  • heraldic
  • heraldry
  • lineage
  • lineal
  • run in the familyidiom
  • sandwich generation
  • successor
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(Definition offamily treefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)
Examples from literature
  • He had come to Cornwall in pursuit of the last pieces of evidence for his family tree, and some local busybody had told him that I was versed in Cornish antiquities and heraldry.
  • I wonder, Kay spoke up demurely, "which ancestor from which side of the family tree put that idea in his head, father?"
  • So I determined to see what I could do in the way of making up a family tree.
  • The family tree was complete.

family tree| American Dictionary

family tree
noun[C]
us
/ˈfæm·ə·li ˈtri,ˈfæm·li/
adrawingthatshowsall themembersof a family, usually over alongperiodoftime, and how they arerelatedto each other
(Definition offamily treefrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoffamily tree

family tree
But he wanted the burden to be nominal and unrelated to the tyro'sfamilytree.
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The traditional ' migration ' model takes lines linking linguistic phenomena onfamilytreediagrams and interprets them historically in terms of lengthy migrations.
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If there is a family history of bleeding, afamilytreeand the age of presentation in affected relatives may provide useful information.
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Linguists usefamilytreediagrams as a form of pictorial shorthand to illustrate the relationship and development of languages and groups of languages within families.
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These relations are best described by means of afamilytree.
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Evolution of the angiosperms : calibrating thefamilytree.
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Familytreediagrams are thus static models that greatly oversimplify complex patterns of linguistic change.
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Figure 5 shows a realistic example, infamilytreeform with all connecting lines horizontal or vertical.
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It is likely that most people (if asked) could provide a crude 'familytree' of their musical tastes.
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There is no necessary one-to-one relationship between the history of a language and the history of the people who speak it today, nor between afamilytreediagram and migrations.
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Each node on a languagefamilytreeis supposed to represent the starting point of an innovation or set of innovations shared by all the languages below the node.
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Thus, some of the innovations that have come to characterize a language or sub-group today may have occurred subsequent to its node on thefamilytree.
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Lexicostatistics thus produces the familiar bifurcatingfamilytreemodel of linguistic development, with each pair of languages stemming from an earlier language, as discussed further below.
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If a psychoanalytic approach is to survive, then there must be ways of pruning thisfamilytree, so that the body of theory is strengthened rather than continually branching out.
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The connexins and theirfamilytree.
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