ancestors

Diplomacy was in his blood: his ancestors had been feudal lords.

他天生擅长交际：他的祖先曾是封建领主。

The custom of worshipping ancestors is prevalent among these people.

崇拜祖先的风俗在这些人中是普遍的.

Our ancestors merely made use of their hands to change nature.

我们的祖先只凭双手改造自然.

This is the dust of our ancestors.

这是我们祖先的遗骸.

The house has descended from our ancestors.

这栋房子是我们祖上传下来的.

One of my ancestors was a great scholar.

我的祖先当中有一位是伟大的学者.

The King was on a private visit to enable him to pray at the tombs of his ancestors.

国王以私人身份出访，以便能够祭拜先祖陵墓。

Were these the bones of ancestors of modern Homo sapiens?

难道那就是现代人类祖先的骨头 吗 ?

" Go back five generations,'says Yale's Kidd. " You have 32 ancestors.

“ 上溯五代, ” 耶鲁大学的凯德说, “ 你有32个祖先.

He could trace his ancestors back seven hundred years.

他的先祖可以上溯到700年前。

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.

The monuments of men's ancestors were the most impressive exhortations.

先辈们的丰碑最能奋勉人心的.

He loved to speak of his ancestors as rooted in Normandy.

他喜欢说他的祖先来自诺曼底.

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.

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.