There's the whole idea—we've already given you some sense that the Greeks were ancestor worshippers.(这就是整个观点——我们已经给了你们古希腊人对祖先甚是尊敬的感觉。)
Its ancestor organizations' policies do not apply.(其祖先组织的策略不适用。)
Talbot's "calotype" was the first negative-to-positive process and the direct ancestor of the modern photograph.(塔尔博特的“卡罗式摄影法”是第一种用负片洗印正片的方法,这种方法是现代摄影技术的直系鼻祖。)
Rather than merely a sign, it is the root from which we can trace back to our ancestor, the tie that helps bind us to other members of the same clan, the dignity most people hope to live for.(它不仅仅是一种标志,更是我们可以追溯到祖先的根源,是将我们与同族其他成员联系在一起的纽带,是大多数人希望为之而活的尊严。)
Unfortunately this revelation about the hippopotamus apparently contradicts the fossil record, which suggests that the hippopotamus is only a very distant relative of the whale, not an ancestor.(很不幸,关于河马的这一发现显然与化石记录相矛盾,化石记录表明河马只是鲸鱼的一个远亲,并不是祖先。)
There is evidence that all modem turtles are descended from a terrestrial ancestor which lived before most of the dinosaurs.(有证据表明所有现代海龟都有陆生的祖先,他们比大部分恐龙还古老。)
We can say today that this university is a direct ancestor of the platonic republic of Plato's Academy.(我们现今可以说,这间大学的直系祖先是柏拉图学院的柏拉图式共和国。)
The common ancestor is, however, too recent for the new species to be a remnant of the first human excursion from Africa.(然而,共同的祖先对于新物种又太现代,而不能作为来自非洲的人类首次远足的遗迹。)
There is only one explanation for that at the molecular level, which is a common ancestor.(对分子水平只有一种解释,那就是共同的祖先。)
From a detailed analysis of the salamanders' family tree, however, it is clear that the other lineages evolved from an ancestor that itself had lost the ability to metamorphose.(然而,通过对蝾螈族谱的详细分析,我们可以清楚地看到,其他谱系分支是从一个本身已经失去了变形的能力的祖先演化而来的。)