The builder of the manor house is a direct ancestor of the present owner.

This machine is the ancestor of the modern computer.

这台机器是现代电脑的始祖.

She has worshipped her ancestor.

她已拜过她的祖先.

Reverent but prejudicial Ancestor Worship-one of China's immense Cemeteries, which seriously lessen her productive land area.

一片巨大的中国人墓地,对祖先的崇敬,但会减少他们可耕种的土地.

Yang Guoren ( 1988 ) . Dong Songs for Ancestor Worship . Guizhou People Press.

《侗族祭祖歌》,杨国仁选编,贵州人民出版社1988年版.

The ideas behind this are probably very old, stemming from ancestor worship rather than Buddhism.

也许这种隐含的意思非常古老, 它起源于对祖先而不是佛教的崇拜.

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.

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 loved to speak of his ancestors as rooted in Normandy.

他喜欢说他的祖先来自诺曼底.

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

先辈们的丰碑最能奋勉人心的.

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.

He could trace his ancestors back seven hundred years.

他的先祖可以上溯到700年前。

" 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.

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 ?

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。

One of my ancestors was a great scholar.

我的祖先当中有一位是伟大的学者.

The house has descended from our ancestors.

这栋房子是我们祖上传下来的.

This is the dust of our ancestors.

这是我们祖先的遗骸.

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

我们的祖先只凭双手改造自然.

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.

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。