His father told him that their ancestors were the kings and queens of the Olmecs, Toltecs,Mayans,Aztecs and other ancient peoples.
VOA: special.2010.06.21
These shrines may have been associated with some kind of contact with ancestors, some kind of cult of the dead.
这些圣坛也和某些东西有关联,与祖先或者对逝者的崇拜有关。
It's not surprising, therefore, that people should be eating more fruits and vegetables, and our ancestors were eating much more.
因此毫无疑问,人们应该吃更多的水果和蔬菜,而我们的祖先吃的更多
She says she researches her family history because she wants to know where she came from, who her ancestors were.
VOA: special.2010.06.28
So, what I'm saying is, when you leave the place you were born, you leave your ancestors as well.
我想说的是,当你离开故乡,你也就离开了你的祖先
He described how the story of his family began long ago in Africa when slave traders captured one of his ancestors.
VOA: special.2010.06.28
Your question relates not only to my personal family, but to the ancestors in faith, the little ancestors in terms of slaves.
你的问题不仅与我个人的家庭有关,更与有信仰的祖先们相关,与早期的奴隶们有关。
Now we know that genetics makes this connection even deeper and we are linked to our ancestors by DNA.
VOA: special.2009.12.01
And if this myth of origins were the fabrication of a later writer, then surely they would have written the story in such a way as to give their ancestors a less tenuous hold or claim, connection, to the land.
如果这个神话的开端是后世作者伪造的,那他们当然会像这样在故事中赋予其祖先较强的控制力,或者说所有权,建立其与这片土地较为紧密的联系。
She hated her with all the intensity of the blood passed to her through long lines of cruel ancestors.
VOA: special.2009.04.18
The laws are not only like our parents, they are like our ancestors, as we might say, who are owed respect and piety.
法律不只像是我们的父母,也像是我们的祖先,我们可以说,他们值得我尊重与孝敬。
Archeologists know that the ancestors of today's Pueblo Indians lived in the Frijoles Canyon for more than four hundred years.
VOA: special.2010.07.05
It was your ancestors who joined.
那是你的先人同意的。
Human DNA carries the information that decides our heredity, the characteristics passed on to us by our ancestors.
VOA: special.2010.03.23
So,he gets a carriage,he rents a carriage, and he goes around as a tourist, and he goes to Notre Dame, and he goes to Sainte-Chapelle, and he goes to pay homage at what they thought were the remains of his departed ancestors.
他有一辆马车,他租了一辆马车,他像游客一样四处转悠,他去了巴黎圣母院,还去了圣礼拜堂,向他已逝去祖先的遗体,致以敬意
He would tell Lucille interesting stories about her ancestors, especially the one named Lucille who was his grandmother.
VOA: special.2010.04.18
Why would you invent a myth of origins in which your ancestors are slaves?
为什么要杜撰关于起源的神话,在这神话中,你的祖先却是奴隶?
Later that year, Borlaug traveled to the home of his ancestors, Norway,where he received the Nobel Peace Prize.
VOA: special.2009.11.10
Well, that's thanks to your ancestors and thanks to the conditions that they've inherited, that you would seek out a diet that has those particular conditions.
其实,这要归因于我们的先祖,是由于祖先们传承下来的,在特定时期的饮食结构决定的
Indigenous and aboriginal groups are often less healthy than the people whose ancestors settled in their lands.
VOA: special.2009.07.20
The Canaanite roots of Israel's ancestors are clear.
以色列祖先的迦南根源是非常清楚的。
When he was in northern New Mexico, men from Cochiti Pueblo took him to a place where their ancestors had lived in Frijoles Canyon.
VOA: special.2010.07.05
Fiber is related at a risk for some diseases, particularly some cancers, and therefore the low fiber intake that we have now compared to what our ancestors had is a factor.
纤维素可以抵抗一些疾病,尤其是某些癌症,相对古人来说我们摄入量偏低,因此我们对一些癌症的抵抗能力就低
No one is sure why. Modern Pueblo Indians say they feel a strong link to the spirit of their ancestors in Bandelier National Monument.
VOA: special.2010.07.05
As I understand it, this is also connected with people gone before us, the ancestors, or however they're phrased, really being in touch with this continuum of life.
根据我的理解,这也与我们前面的古人相关,祖先也好,其他的名字也好,一切都是感受到,but,it’s为了,生命的延续。
However,their spoken history tells of their ancestors living in the area for about one thousand years.
VOA: special.2010.07.05
Some people have said let's go back to what our ancestors ate.
有些人建议我们该返璞归真,学习祖先
These Taos Indians live in the ancient adobe rooms as their ancestors did centuries ago -- without any running water or electric power for lights.
VOA: special.2010.07.05
In the late eighteenth century, Darwin's grandfather, Erasmus Darwin,suggested that species evolved from their ancestors.
VOA: special.2009.12.01
Animals that escaped or were freed became the ancestors of burros in the wild today.
VOA: special.2010.02.16
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