ancestor是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 祖先，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had the honour to have much conver-sation with Brutus; and was told, 'that his ancestor Junius, Socrates, Epaminondas, Cato the younger, Sir Thomas More, and himself were perpetually together:' a sextumvirate, to which all the ages of the world cannot add a seventh.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As to Merrylegs, that respectable ancestor of the highly trained animal who went aboard the ark, might have been accidentally shut out of it, for any sign of a dog that was manifest to eye or ear in the Pegasus's Arms.
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