基本释义
n. 血统;家系,[遗] 世系
星级词汇
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助记提示
1. line + -age.
2. 这里取 line 的引申义:家族,家系,血统。
英文词源
lineage 宗系,血统
来自line,线,引申词义宗系,血统。
深度学习
lineage (LIN ee ij or LIN ij) Generally speaking, this noun means “ancestry,” the “line” going back to your forebears on the family tree. A chart of the family tree is a called a “pedigree,” from the foot-of-a-crane appearance of such a chart. “Pedigree” is sometimes used informally to refer to an individual’s education or training or to a “purebred” animal’s background.
- Petra brags of tracing her lineage back to Charlemagne, ignoring hundreds of other ancestors who didn’t make the history books.
- “I don’t care about his pedigree,” huffed Mr. Stormer when his daughter began detailing her fiance’s educational background. “Is he a man who’ll treat you right?”
——摘自《Fiske WordPower: The Most Effective System for Building a Vocabulary That Gets Results Fast》
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lineage(LIN ee ij或LIN ij)一般来说,这个名词的意思是 “祖先”,即在家谱上追溯到你的祖先的 “线”。家谱的图表被称为 “血统”,来自这种图表的鹤立鸡群的外观。”血统 “有时被非正式地用来指一个人的教育或培训,或指 “纯种 “动物的背景。
佩特拉吹嘘她的血统可以追溯到查理曼大帝,而忽略了其他几百个没有被载入史册的祖先。
“我不关心他的血统,”当他的女儿开始详述她未婚夫的教育背景时,斯托默先生哼了一声。”他是一个会好好对待你的人吗?”
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