Ancestor

(noun.) someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent).

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• By the shell of my first ancestor! 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• In the name of my first ancestor, then, she continued, where may you be from? 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• In the same order or family to-day, the brain is usually from six to ten times what it was in the Eocene ancestor. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Only our first ancestor knows, he replied. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• Before the ancestor of the sea scorpion could survive being left by the tide it had to develop its casing and armour. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• She was indeed, as her fellow Martian had said of her, an atavism; a dear and precious reversion to a former type of loved and loving ancestor. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• By the metal of my first ancestor, he went on, but the description fits him to perfection, especially as to his fighting ability. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• And then Tarzan of the Apes did just what his first ancestor would have done. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• Your Elizabethan ancestor was not healthy-minded, said Caliphronas coolly; if he had been he would never have written such silly verses. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• By my first ancestor, but never was there so grotesque a figure in all the universe. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• Because, curiously enough, that song was written by a Carolean ancestor of mine, and I cannot think how Justinian came to know it. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• Blessed be the shell of thy first ancestor, most noble Dator, replied the man. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• Others, alive to this objection, say that man is descended from the common ancestor of the chimpanzee, the orang-utang, and the gorilla. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• As, however, we do not know the common ancestor of any natural group, we cannot distinguish between reversionary and analogous characters. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Almost certainly that ancestor was a smaller and slighter creature than its human descendants. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• We are not apt to imagine our posterity will excel us, or equal our ancestors. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• Mr Lightwood murmured 'Vigorous Saxon spirit--Mrs Boffin's ancestors--bowmen--Agincourt and Cressy. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Possibly he did not even have a name, but in some way he hit upon a scheme for throwing stones farther, harder and straighter than any of his ancestors. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The simple candle of our ancestors was now replaced by the oil lamp, which gave a brighter, steadier, and more permanent illumination. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• The shotgun and rifle, the familiar weapons of the sportsman and the foot-soldier, are not the ancestors of the cannon, as might be surmised. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• No one had ever before heard Adrian allude to the rights of his ancestors. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Our not remote ancestors held the right of life and death over the surrounding vulgar. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• It is not certain whether the Neolithic pastoral people who left those remains were the direct ancestors of the later Egyptians. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Our ancestors were idle for want of a sufficient encouragement to industry. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• But all machines, however complicated in appearance, are in reality but modifications and combinations of one or more of four simple machines devised long ago by our remote ancestors. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• DEAR SON,--I have ever had a pleasure in obtaining any little anecdotes of my ancestors. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• Our ancestors have transmitted to us their physical forms, but not their brains, not their heroism. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• It seemed as if she was not an imposter any more, and was coming to the home of her ancestors. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• They fear the black pirates of Barsoom, O Prince, she said, from whom may our first ancestors preserve us. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• The myth is not one of the outgrown crudities of our pagan ancestors. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.

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