n. 祖先, 祖宗
In an organized archive, people can do research on their family history and find out how their ancestors came to settle in the new land.
六级 · CET-6 2025年6月 第1套
This is not to deny that basic forms of trade took place, but, for the most part, our primitive ancestors lived fairly self-reliant, if crushingly poor, lives.
六级 · CET-6 2024年12月 第3套
And yet, robbed of the engagement with our neighbors and with our local communities that our ancestors were forced into by circumstance, we feel ourselves to be more and more independent of one another.
六级 · CET-6 2024年12月 第3套
Unlike our ancestors in their primitive townships, we rarely have to meet face-to-face the people who've invented, built, shipped, or supplied our goods.
六级 · CET-6 2024年12月 第3套
As opposed to the ancestors Tocqueville compares us to, we do not know the people with whom we have to do, in either the economic or the political sphere.
六级 · CET-6 2024年12月 第3套