祖先

tā de zǔ xiān jiù shēng huó zài zhè lǐ

她的祖先就生活在这里。

Her ancestors lived here.

wén wù gǔ jì shì zǔ xiān liú gěi wǒ men de bǎo guì cái fù

文物古迹是祖先留给我们的宝贵财富。

Cultural relics and historical sites are precious treasures left to us by our ancestors.

tā méi yǒu rǔ mò zǔ xiān de míng shēng

他没有辱没祖先的名声。

He did not humiliate his ancestors.

shǐ zǔ niǎo shì niǎo lèi de zǔ xiān

始祖鸟是鸟类的祖先。

Archaeopteryx is the ancestor of the birds.

lán xì jūn de chéng yuán shì yè lǜ tǐ de zǔ xiān

蓝细菌的成员是叶绿体的祖先。

The member of cyanobacteria is the progenitor of plant chloroplasts.

dì zhōng hǎi dì qū yàn mài bèi rèn wéi shì xiàn dài zāi zhòng yàn mài de zǔ xiān

地中海地区燕麦，被认为是现代栽种燕麦的祖先。

Mediterranean oat held to be progenitor of modern cultivated oat.