1520s, from Old French ancestrel (Anglo-French auncestrel), from ancestre (see ancestor). Related: Ancestrally.
双语例句
1. His ancestral home is in France.
他原籍法国.
来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
2. He is the stereotyped monster of the horror films and the adventure books, and an obvious ( though not perhaps strictly scientific ) link with our ancestral past.
