ancestral

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My friends always ask me this question and I don't know how to answer them. They want to know why we left our ancestral house.
我的朋友都問我這個問題，不過我不知道怎么回答，他們都問，為什么我們離開我們祖先的房子到這里來呢？
Within the national park are more than five thousand ruins from the time of the Ancestral Puebloan people. Six hundred are cliff dwellings.
在這個國家公園里，從普韋布洛人祖先開始，這里擁有五千多處遺跡，有六百多處是崖居人的遺跡。
These original ‘proto-languages’—from which all others allegedly have developed—were distinct within themselves, with no previous ancestral language.
這些原始的“前語言”——其他語言從其演化而來——各自截然不同，根本不再有更前面的祖先語言。

The ancestral Pueblo people used stone tools to widen the small natural openings in the face of the canyon walls.
There's a lot of frying going on at this particular place and this is something that's not typical of ancestral human diets.
在這個國家,有很多油炸食品,這不是我們祖先的日常飲食
耶魯公開課 - 關(guān)于食物的心理學(xué)、生物學(xué)和政治學(xué)課程節(jié)選
There are some people who have talked about returning to an ancestral diet.
有一些人主張要,回歸祖先的飲食文化
耶魯公開課 - 關(guān)于食物的心理學(xué)、生物學(xué)和政治學(xué)課程節(jié)選

Meantime, Innu and Inuit groups claimed the nickel deposit lay on their ancestral land.
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You use ancestral to refer to a person's family in former times, especially when the family is important and has property or land that they have had for a long time.