ancestor

一、真题好句
ancestor 选择性必修1000 全国卷频次:1 教材出处:译林版选必修B3U1
/ˈænsəstə(r), ˈænsestə(r)/ /ˈænˌsɛstər, ˈænsəstər/
n. ancestors 0
祖先，祖宗
高考真题原句选：
Cory Luxmoore arrived from England to deliver the diary of his ancestor to the Library Company.
and so we have come to Nova Scotia where my husband and I were born and where our ancestors lived for 200 years.

二、词组｜习惯用语
ancestor worship 祖先崇拜；祭祖；敬奉祖先

三、词根记忆 [12060](090529)

ancestor
n.
祖宗,祖先;原型,先驅During the festival the investor investigated his ancestor.節日期間投資者調查了他的祖宗.
祖先;祖宗(an=ante+cest=cess+or→走在前面的人→祖先)[ced,ceed,cess=go,表示”行走,前進”]

an·ces·tor / 5AnsestE(r) /
noun
1. a person in your family who lived a long time ago
祖宗；祖先:
His ancestors had come to America from Ireland.
他的祖先从爱尔兰来到美国。
SYN forebear
2. an animal that lived in the past which a modern animal has developed from
(动物的)原种:
a reptile that was the common ancestor of lizards and turtles
作为蜥蜴和龟的共同原种的一种爬行动物
3. an early form of a machine which later became more developed
(机器的)原型
SYN forerunner :
The ancestor of the modern bicycle was called a penny-farthing.
现代自行车的原型称作 penny-farthing (一种前轮大后轮小的自行车)。
⇨ compare descendant
• an·ces·tral / An5sestrEl / adj.:
her ancestral home (= that had belonged to her ancestors )
她的祖居

ancestor /ˈænsəstə, -ses- $ -sestər/ ●●○ noun [countable] 1  a member of your family who lived a long time ago 祖先，祖宗 → descendant
My ancestors were French.
我的祖先是法国人。
► see thesaurus at relative
2  an animal that lived in the past, that modern animals have developed from 〔动物的〕原种，祖先
Lions and house cats evolved from a common ancestor (=the same ancestor).
狮子和家猫从共同的原种进化而来。
3  the form in which a modern machine, vehicle etc first existed 〔现代机器、车辆等的〕原型 SYN forerunner
ancestor of
Babbage’s invention was the ancestor of the modern computer.
巴比奇的发明是现代计算机的原型。
—ancestral /ænˈsestrəl/ adjective
the family’s ancestral home
这个家族的祖居
Origin ancestor (1300-1400) Old French ancestre, from Latin antecessor “one who goes before”, from antecedere; → ANTECEDENT

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1.N-COUNT 可数名词祖宗;祖先 Your ancestors are the people from whom you are descended.

【搭配模式】：usu pl
…our daily lives, so different from those of our ancestors…

与我们祖先的生活有着天壤之别的我们的日常生活

He could trace his ancestors back seven hundred years.

他的先祖可以上溯到700年前。

2.N-COUNT 可数名词原种；原型 An ancestor of something modern is an earlier thing from which it developed.

【搭配模式】：usu N of n
The direct ancestor of the modern cat was the Kaffir cat of ancient Egypt…

现代猫的直系原种是古埃及的卡菲尔猫。

The immediate ancestor of rock ‘n’ roll is rhythm-and-blues.

摇滚乐直接源自节奏布鲁斯。

ancestor /ˈænˌsɛstɚ/ noun
plural ancestors [count] 1
: a person who was in someone’s family in past times : one of the people from whom a person is descended祖先；祖宗
My ancestors came to America during the 1800s.
我的祖先19世纪初来到美国。
Her ancestors were great sea captains.
她的祖上是了不起的航海船长。
2
: an animal in the past from which a modern animal developed（动物的）原种
an ancient animal that was the ancestor of the modern horse
作为现代马的原种的一种古代动物
3
: something in the past from which something else has developed原型；雏形
The museum included an exhibit showing ancestors of the modern computer.
博物馆的展览包括现代计算机原型的展示。
several languages that are derived from a common ancestor
几种同源的语言
Latin is the ancestor of Italian and French.
拉丁语是意大利语和法语的始祖。
— ancestral /ænˈsɛstrəl/ adjective
We returned to our ancestral home [=the home of our ancestors] after many years.
多年以后我们回到了祖居。