This machine is the ancestor of the modern computer.

这台机器是现代电脑的始祖。

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

建造这幢庄园的人就是它现在主人的一个直祖先。

The house has descended from our ancestors.

这栋房子是我们祖上传下来的。

One of my ancestors was a great scholar.

我的祖先当中有一位是伟大的学者。

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。

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。

The apical cell and basal cell act as the ancestor cells of frond and rhizoid.

两个细分别成为叶片和假根的祖细。

Without this, you are reducing your chances of concentrating the genes of the linebred ancestor.

有这种选择，你就在降低强调在繁殖中祖先基因的机会。

My ancestors came from Italian.

我的祖先是意大利人。

The common ancestor of the glasswing is long extinct but the clade it belongs to is known as the clearwing clade.

玻璃翅的共同祖先已灭绝很长时间，但它所属的种类是目前已知的透翅蛾进化枝。

The 23 million-year-old creature was not a direct ancestor of today's seals, sea lions and walruses, a group known collectively as pinnipeds.

这只2300万年的生物并不是如今海豹、海狮和海象的直祖先，而是来自另一个分支。

The little bancha are listening to the legends of their ancestors' origins. Ironically, the carvings on the pillars are actually copied from Africa.

凉亭课室里的「小班榨」在倾听祖先由来及传说；讽刺的是，亭柱上的木雕居然仿自非洲文化。

By the custom of many manors one shall lose copyhold if he claims it not within a year and a day after the death of his ancestor.

根据许多采邑的习惯法，继承人对被继承人已登记在册的不动产所有权，如不在其死后1年提出要求，就将自动丧失。

The brilliant Chu culture created by the local ancestors,Chu People, affected the locals profoundly , which shaped the people’s character of enthusiastic but doughty, romantic but untrammeled.

先民楚人创造的灿烂的楚文化深深地影响着这个地方的人们，使武汉人的性格表现得热情而刚烈，浪漫而奔放。

If a child of very quirt, home-loving parents and grandparents should display the love of travel and adventure that had characterized a sea-captain ancestor, it would be called a case of atavism.

如果父母及祖父母都是很安静而好家居的，孩子表现了一位当过船长的祖先的特点，好旅行探险，这就可以说是一个隔代遗传的例子。

A linebreeding may produce a puppy with magnificent qualities, but if those qualities are not present in any of the ancestors the pup has been linebred on, it may not breed true.

繁殖可以生出品质超群的小狗~~但是如果这些品质并有在繁殖的小狗任何祖先身上呈现~~可能就是不准确的繁殖。