【ancestral】 - A-level备考词汇

ancestral

UK:  [æn'sestrəl]

n.

1.祖宗

adj.

1.祖先的;祖传的

2.遗传的

3.老

4.古色古香的

1 . When he made these 7 changes to the ancestral receptor, it behaved just like a new glucocorticoid receptor.
当研究人员改变早先的原始受体的这7个位点后，它就成为了一个新的糖皮质激素受体了。

2 . Mr. Perkin carelessly lost his suitcase at 9: 30 a. m. this Saturday when he took a bus from Yingze Street to Jin Ancestral Temple.
本星期六上午九点半，Perkin先生乘公共汽车从迎泽去晋祠时，不慎将手提箱丢失。

3 . Lee Hom was one of 150 individuals chosen to undertake a speech analysis to determine his own ancestral origins.
力宏为查明他自己祖先的起源成为了接受采访分析的150个人当中的一个。

4 . In her view, dating via the Internet enables, as she wrote, "the modern human brain to pursue more comfortably its ancestral mating dance. "
以她的观点，通过互联网相亲可以——如她所写“让现代人脑以更舒适的方式继续祖先的交配舞蹈。”

5 . The indigenous groups say that the laws put their way of life in danger, and amount to nothing less than the theft of their ancestral lands.
土著组织称，这些法律将他们的生活方式置入危险中，无异于盗窃他们祖传的土地。