ANCESTOR

Pronunție (USA): (GB):

Traducere în limba română

ancestor substantiv

strămoş, străbun; înaintaş (şi fig.);

to be one's own ancestor a-şi fi îndatorat sieşi (pentru toate).

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

Mr. Brooke looked up and said quickly, "Young ladies in America love independence as much as their ancestors did, and are admired and respected for supporting themselves."

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

Not alone out of his own eyes, but out of the eyes of all his ancestors was the cub now looking upon man—out of eyes that had circled in the darkness around countless winter camp-fires, that had peered from safe distances and from the hearts of thickets at the strange, two-legged animal that was lord over living things.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

This discovery suggests that this ability to actively forget less useful memories may have evolved far back on the ‘Tree of Life’, perhaps as far back as our common ancestor with rodents some 100 million years ago.

(Selective amnesia: how rats and humans are able to actively forget distracting memories, University of Cambridge)

I was brought up in America but educated at Oxford because all my ancestors have been educated there for many years.

(The Great Gatsby, de F. Scott Fitzgerald)

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