ancestor
单词辨析：
用在谱系或历史书中，强调带有父系或母系嫡系血缘关系，是比祖父母更早的家族成员，无性别之分，女性祖先则常用 ancestress。
His ancestors came from France.
他的先祖来自法国。
My ancestors have lived on this farm for many generations.
我的祖先已在这个农场生活了好几代。
主要用于正式文体或文学作品，较少用于日常生活或历史书中。
Our forefathers were the first to invent gunpowder.
我们的祖先最先发明了火药。
不强调血缘关系，也不带家族或种族色彩，只强调遗传性；还可引申指某种观念等的创始者。
You must do much better than your progenitors.
你一定要比你祖先做得更好。
He is a progenitor of cubism.
他是立体派的创始人。
相关例句：
Rather than compare two changed models, the tooling compares each changed model to their common ancestor.
工具会将每一个变更的模型与它们的共同起始相比较，而不是比较两个变更了的模型。
The ideas behind this are probably very old, stemming from ancestor worship rather than Buddhism.
也许这种隐含的意思非常古老，它起源于对祖先而不是佛教的崇拜。
In yet another lifetime, this initiate's ancestor was a Pharaoh's wife in ancient Egypt.
而在另一生中，这一提升者的祖先是古埃及法老的一名妻子。
With the development of the crust and its continents, a recognizable ancestor of our present earth appeared.
随着地壳和它的大陆的演变，我们现在的地球的可辨认原型就出现了。
Since then, all of the Mongols is only one ancestor, that is Genghis Khan.
从此之后，所有的蒙古人只承认一个祖先，就是成吉思汗。
Panhu and Wang Yao is set totem worship and ancestor worship.
而盘瓠和盘王是瑶族的图腾崇拜和祖先崇拜。