祖先

• This was the land of her birth, out of which she, and her fathers before her, had arisen .
  这是她诞生的地方，她和她的祖先就在这儿生长起来的。
• The chief was so hospitable that he invited his guests to join him in the hall of ancestors .
  酋长十分殷勤，甚至请他的客人跟他一起到祖先的灵堂里去。
• Lucinda whipple's ancestors had stormed, particularly her great-grandfather abner hale .
  露辛达的祖先，特别是她的外曾祖艾布纳黑尔曾这样表示深恶痛绝。
• Stone tools that were unearthed there indicate the early cultural capabilities of our human ancestors .
  这里出土的石器说明了我们人类祖先的早期文化和才能。
• All the pomoideae were allopolyploids derived from a doubled hybrid between two remote ancestral types .
  所有的梨亚科是由两个远缘祖先类型双杂交演化的异源多倍体。
• It was the policy of our ancestors to search out even the most secret sins, and expose them to shame .
  我们的祖先奉行这样一种方针：哪怕是最隐秘的罪恶也要查它个水落石出。
• Americans are heterogeneous in their origins, constantly striving to rediscover what they have in common .
  美国人的祖先来自各个方面，他们经常努力设法重新找出大家的共同点。
• To our ancestors of thousands of years ago, things happened in the world because gods caused them to happen .
  对于几千年前我们的祖先来说，世界上所发生的一切，都是上帝的旨意。
• He also liked to remind people of his own descent from one of the signers of the declaration of independence .
  他还喜欢提醒别人，签署了《独立宣言》的开国元勋之一是他的嫡系祖先。
• "my ancestors have lived in a civilized state so long that the fear of the police has eaten into my bones. "
  “我的祖先长期生活在一个文明的国家，他们对警察的恐惧已经深入我的骨髓。”