祖先

• Many fine tales have come down to us from our ancestors .
  许多优秀的故事从我们祖先传到我们。
• What are your roots ?
  你的祖先是干什么的？
• These shores will still swarm with the dead of my people .
  这一带海岸仍将到处有我们祖先的英灵出没。
• It is the humour of many heads to extol the days of their forefathers .
  许多人天生喜欢吹捧祖先的时代。
• He proposed that all living things are related by descent .
  他提出，所有生物都由它们共同的祖先把彼此相连在一起。
• On our theory, unity of type is explained by unity of descent .
  依照我们的学说，体型的一致是由于祖先系谱的一致。
• 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。
• We know that some of man's close ancestors predated the pleistocene .
  我们知道，有些人类近缘祖先出现于更新世之前。
• He was welsh, with the dark, stormy good looks of his ancestors .
  他是威尔士人，有着他祖先那种暗黑和粗犷健美的外貌。
• She had no ancestors and thought people who had were snobs .
  她没有荣耀的祖先，并认为有荣耀祖先的人都是些仗势欺人的人。