汉英词典
Chinese-English Dictionary
MEANING OF 先祖
先祖
deceased grandfather / ancestry
祖先。 称已故的祖父。
xiān
EXAMPLE SENTENCES

先祖:某世系的第一个活尸。

Progenitor: the first Promethean of a Lineage.

先祖所立的地界,你不可挪移。

Do not move an ancient boundary stone set up by your forefathers.

先祖制作的活尸则继承其世系。

Any Prometheans the Progenitor then creates inherit his Lineage.

这显然是能人(会制造工具的人类先祖)的作品。

This was clearly the work of Homo Habilis, our tool-making ancestor.

所有的证据只表明她与她的先祖们葬在了一起。

All the evidence is that she was buried with her ancestors.

而福塞尔说,大多数跻身上流社会的人“都是仰仗先祖的家业”。

Most of the upper class, Mr. Fussell said, 'owe it all to their ancestors.

沅陵龙舟竞渡是为了祭祀苗族先祖盘瓠,它远远早于祭祀屈原的龙舟竞渡。

The Yuanling dragon boat race was for sacrificial purpose to Pan Hu-the ancestor of Miao minority group.

我的先祖们也带回了璀璨的西方文明,如医学与历算。

My ancestors also brought back the resplendent western civilization, such as medicine and calendar.

求你不要记念我们先祖的罪孽,向我们追讨。愿你的慈悲快迎着我们。

Do not hold against us the SINS of the fathers; may your mercy come quickly to meet us, for we are in desperate need.

满族先祖长期生活在无霜期短的东北,初以少种植、多渔猎为主要经济来源。

Over centuries, Manchurian ancestors lived in Northeast China of short frost-free season with fishing and hunting being their main economic sources instead of planting.