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汉语拼音：zǔ xiān

1.一个民族或家族的上代，特指年代比较久远的。

2.演化成现代各类生物的各种古代生物：始祖鸟是鸟类的～之一。

1. 民族或家族的上代先辈。

   《参同契》卷下：“子继父业，孙踵祖先。” 唐 元稹 《赠王承宗侍中诰》：“诗书礼乐，稟训於祖先；勇敢謨猷，自生於诚腑。” 元 张国宾 《合汗衫》第四折：“若説着俺祖先，好家私似泼天。”《西湖佳话·葛岭仙迹》：“ 葛洪 到此，素心已遂，道念愈坚，因拜谢了天地祖先，立愿施药济世，不欲復在世缘中扰扰。” 冯至 《伍子胥》一：“祖先的坟墓，他不想再见；父亲的面貌，他不想再见。”如：继承祖先的优良传统。

2. 演化出现代各类生物的各种古代生物。如：始祖鸟是鸟类的祖先。

• Her Chinese friends referred to the Empress as their venerable ancestor.

  她的中国朋友们说这位女皇是他们值得敬仰的祖先。

• 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。

• Mediterranean oat held to be progenitor of modern cultivated oat.

  地中海地区燕麦,被认为是现代栽种燕麦的祖先.

• 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.

• He went to visit the graves of his forefathers.

  他去拜谒他祖先的墓地.

• Man was evolved from an ancestor that was probably arboreal.

  人大概是从住在树上的祖先进化而来的.

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

  我们的祖先只凭双手改造自然.

• She has worshipped her ancestor.

  她已拜过她的祖先.

• This is the dust of our ancestors.

  这是我们祖先的遗骸.

• One of my ancestors was a great scholar.

  我的祖先当中有一位是伟大的学者.

• From ancient times our forefathers have laboured, lived and multiplied on this land.

  自古以来,我们的祖先就劳动 、 生息、繁衍在这块土地上.

• 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.

• They were determined to go back to the land of their forefathers.

  他们决意回到祖先的土地上。

• He was also a progenitor of seven presidents of Nicaragua.

  他也是尼加拉瓜7任总统的祖先。