英语单词ancestor翻译，英文单词ancestor的意思

ancestor

简明英汉词典

ancestor

[5AnsistE]

n.

祖先, 祖宗

美国传统词典[双解]

ancestor

an.ces.tor

AHD:[2n“sμs”t…r]

D.J.[6#n7sest*]

K.K.[6#n7sWst+]

n.（名词）

(1)A person from whom one is descended, especially if more remote than a grandparent; a forebear.

祖先，祖宗：繁衍后代的人，特别是远于祖父辈；前辈

(2)A forerunner or predecessor.

前人，先驱：先行者或先驱

(3)Law The person from whom an estate has been inherited.

【法律】 被继承人：一个人，从他那里财产可被继承

(4)Biology The actual or hypothetical organism or stock from which later kinds evolved.

【生物学】 物种原形：演化成后来各物种的真实存在的或假设的有机物

语源

(1)Middle English auncestre

中古英语 auncestre

(2)from Old French

源自 古法语

(3)from Latin antecessor [predecessor]

源自 拉丁语 antecessor [先驱]

(4)from antecessus [past participle of] antec?dere [to precede]

源自 antecessus [] antec?dere的过去分词 [在…之前]

(5)ante- [ante-]

ante- [前缀，表示“在…之前”]

(6)c?e [to go] * see ked-

c?e [走] *参见 ked-

参考词汇

(1)ancestor， forebear， forefather， progenitor

(2)The central meaning shared by these nouns is “a person from whom one is descended”:

这些名词所共有的中心意思是“繁衍出后代的人”：

ancestors who were farmers;

祖辈是农民；

an island once owned by his forebears;

曾被他的前辈占有的岛屿；

methods as old as our forefathers;

象祖辈一样的陈旧方法；

the wisdom of our progenitors. descendant

祖先的智慧 descendant

现代英汉词典

ancestor

[5AnsEstE(r)]

n.

祖先 （女性为： ancestrees）

My ancestors came from Italian.

我的祖先是意大利人。

现代英汉综合大辞典

ancestor

[5AnsistE]

n.

(1)祖先, 祖宗

(2)最初之物; 起源

(3)始祖

(4)【生】原种

(5)【律】被继承人

One of my ancestors was a great scholar.

我的祖先当中有一位是伟大的学者。

习惯用语

be one's own ancestor

[罕]自己当始祖(指不靠父祖余荫, 自立特殊功勋)

用法词典

ancestor

来自古法语ancestre