Our ancestors seem to have had a regular system of 26 symbols, which may have been the origins of written language.
我们的先祖似乎已经有了具有26个符号的有规则体系，它们可能就是我们现在书面语言的来源。Legendary ancestors once found it relatively easy to balance their feral instincts against their human wisdom, but no longer.
对神话中的先祖们来说保持野性本能和人类聪慧的平衡很简单，但是现在不是了。Brothers, I can tell you confidently that the patriarch David died and was buried, and his tomb is here to this day.
弟兄们，先祖大卫的事，我可以明明的对你们说，他死了，也葬埋了，并且他的坟墓，直到今日还在我们这里。Do not keep in mind against us the sins of our fathers; let your mercy come to us quickly, for we have been made very low.
求你不要记念我们先祖的罪孽，向我们追讨；愿你的慈悲快迎著我们，因为我们落到极卑微的地步。Progenitor: The first Promethean of a Lineage. Frankenstein's monster was the Progenitor of the Frankenstein Lineage.
先祖：某世系的第一个活尸。如弗兰肯斯坦的怪物即为该世系的先祖。And, behold, ye are risen up in your fathers' stead, an increase of sinful men, to augment yet the fierce anger of the LORD toward Israel.
谁知，你们起来接续先祖，增添罪人的数目，使耶和华向以色列大发烈怒。They say also that the Seven Fathers of the Dwarves return to live again in their own kin and to bear once more their ancient names.
矮人还说矮人的先祖七父会在他们的后代中以他们古老的名字重生。When these children are not taught to speak the language of their ancestors, a connection with their native culture is bound to be lost.
如果不教这些孩子讲先祖的语言，那他们必定会失去与自己的本土文化之间的联系。What you read on these monuments of the Long Count are events that connected Maya rulers with ancestors and the divine.
从这些长计历纪念碑上得到的信息，只不过是玛雅统治者同先祖的一些联系而已。