祖先是民族或家族较早的上代，还指演化成现代生物的古代生物。那么你知道祖先用英语怎么说吗?下面来学习一下吧。

祖先的英语说法1：

ancestor

祖先的英语说法2：

progenitor

祖先的英语说法3：

forefather

祖先的相关短语：

祖先崇拜 veneration of the dead

共同祖先 common ancestor

女祖先 foremother ; ancestress ; A woman ancestor

曾祖先 great great grandfather

祖先状态 ancestral state

祖先的英语例句：

1. Sri Lankans share a common ancestry with their Indian brethren.

斯里兰卡人和他们的印度兄弟有共同的祖先。

2. Her Chinese friends referred to the Empress as their venerable ancestor.

她的中国朋友们说这位女皇是他们值得敬仰的祖先。

3. Diplomacy was in his blood: his ancestors had been feudal lords.

他天生擅长交际：他的祖先曾是封建领主。

4. His ancestors had come to America from Ireland.

他的祖先从爱尔兰来到美国。

5. They are the most precious cultural legacy our forefathers left.

它们是我们祖先留下来的最宝贵的文化遗产.

6. All of us bristled at the lawyer's speech insulting our forefathers.

听到那个律师在讲演中污蔑我们的祖先,大家都气得怒发冲冠.

7. Mediterranean oat held to be progenitor of modern cultivated oat.

地中海地区燕麦,被认为是现代栽种燕麦的祖先.

8. The custom of worshipping ancestors is prevalent among these people.

崇拜祖先的风俗在这些人中是普遍的.

9. The boy from America said his fathers were Chinese.

那个来自美国的男孩说他的祖先是中国人.

10. He went to visit the graves of his forefathers.

他去拜谒他祖先的墓地.

11. Man was evolved from an ancestor that was probably arboreal.

人大概是从住在树上的祖先进化而来的.

12. Our ancestors merely made use of their hands to change nature.

我们的祖先只凭双手改造自然.

13. She has worshipped her ancestor.

她已拜过她的祖先.

14. This is the dust of our ancestors.

这是我们祖先的遗骸.

15. One of my ancestors was a great scholar.

我的祖先当中有一位是伟大的学者.