他有希腊血统——他的祖先原来姓卡拉扬尼斯。
There was Greek blood in his veins: his ancestors originally bore the name Karajannis.
依照逻辑推论，我们的祖先在弄清1年是什么意思之前，不可能举行过每年一度的节庆。
Logic dictates that our ancestors could not have held a yearly festival until they figured what a year was.
它不包含现代动物群体的祖先。
我的祖先是一位游历于乡间的传教士。
My ancestor was a preacher, traveling around the countryside.
我的祖先是西班牙人。
对分子水平只有一种解释，那就是共同的祖先。
There is only one explanation for that at the molecular level, which is a common ancestor.
我们旧石器时代的祖先每天消耗约100克纤维。
Our palaeolithic ancestors consumed around 100g of fibre per day.
这种祖先物种可能是在岛屿相连的时候进化而来的。
This ancestral species might have evolved at a time when the islands were connected.
在今天的众多藻类中，绿藻可能与植物的祖先最为相似。
Of today's different groups of algae, green algae are probably the most similar to ancestral plants.
后来的祖先生活在陆地上，并在那里居住了一代又一代。
Later ancestors lived on land and stayed there for a very large number of generations.
自古以来，我们的祖先就劳动、生息、繁衍在这块土地上。
From ancient times our forefathers have laboured, lived and multiplied on this land.
在人类进化史的绝大多数时间里，我们的祖先都生活在部落里。
For most of our evolutionary history, our ancestors lived in tribes.
我们祖先所做的是在我们的皮肤细胞中产生更持久的天然色素。
What we did in our ancestry was to produce more permanent natural coloring in our skin cells.
我们的祖先没有想到人口的增长速度会超过原材料的供应速度。
Our forefathers had no idea that human population would increase faster than the supplies of raw materials.
这种夜间的“交易”也许可以一直追溯到所有哺乳动物的祖先身上。
It is probable that the nocturnal trades a way back in the ancestry of all mammals.
这样的介绍更能告诉我们当代人们对世界的看法，而不是祖先的看法。
Such presentations tell us more about contemporary perceptions of the world than about our ancestors.
这就是整个观点——我们已经给了你们古希腊人对祖先甚是尊敬的感觉。
There's the whole idea—we've already given you some sense that the Greeks were ancestor worshippers.
我们现今可以说，这间大学的直系祖先是柏拉图学院的柏拉图式共和国。
We can say today that this university is a direct ancestor of the platonic republic of Plato's Academy.
它们与毛毡苔有着更近代的祖先，毛毡苔也可以将树叶卷起来盖住猎物。
They share a more recent ancestor with Drosera sundews, which can also curl their leaves over their prey.
如果我们回过头看看我们的祖先，我们会发现他们身上的毛发比我们现在多得多。
If we look back at our ancestors, we'll see that they had a lot more hair on their bodies than we do now.
就像你可以追溯祖先的家谱一样，它只是在显示与遗传相关的语言，而不是人类。
Like a family tree that you might use to trace back through generations of ancestors, only it's showing a family of genetically related languages instead of people.
当然，这使他们有别于他们的祖先，但是什么让他们有勇气进行如此冒险的航行呢？
Certainly it distinguished them from their ancestors, but what gave them the courage to launch out on such risky voyages?
我们早期的祖先不能像成年人一样消化牛奶，因为他们的身体从来不需要消化牛奶。
None of our early ancestors could digest milk as adults because their bodies never had to.
就像是她改变了（绘画的）风格，让它不再只是对总统和祖先的一些形式上的描绘。
It is like she transformed the genre, it is not just formal depictions of presidents and ancestors any more.
然而，共同的祖先对于新物种又太现代，而不能作为来自非洲的人类首次远足的遗迹。
The common ancestor is, however, too recent for the new species to be a remnant of the first human excursion from Africa.
也许他们想住得离他们祖先的坟墓越近越好，这样他们自己就可以埋葬在祖坟的附近。
It maybe they wanted to live as near as possible to their ancestors' graves and be buried near them themselves.
如果你愿意，可以称之为祖先崇拜，但是它给了这份报纸一种惊人的思想和原则动力。
You can call that ancestor-worship if you wish, but it gives to the paper an astonishing momentum of thought and principle.
将大象引进到这个生态系统中可能就会帮助传播大颗粒种子了，正如它们的祖先一样。
Introduce elephants into that ecosystem and they might disperse those large maclura seeds, like their ancestors did.
将大象引进到这个生态系统中可能就会帮助传播大颗粒种子了，正如它们的祖先一样。
Introduce elephants into that ecosystem and they might disperse those large maclura seeds, like their ancestors did.
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