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1 | someone who is related to you who lived a long time ago 祖先;先人;祖宗 |
| Her ancestors went to America with the Pilgrims. 她的祖先随同早期清教徒移民去了美国。 |
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2 | an earlier form from which something modern has developed 原型 |
| a game that many see as the ancestor of basketball 一种被许多人认为是篮球原型的游戏 |
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ancestral adj |
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/ænˈsestrəl/ |
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| their ancestral home 他们的祖居 |
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