English-Chinese/Ancestor

An ancestor is a person from whom one is descended. Usually it refers to a remote person, rather than the immediate parents or grandparents. A very similar word is forebear. A female ancestor may be called an ancestress. The line of people from whom a person's descends is referred to as their ancestry.

祖先是人们的先人. 通常它指的是很久以前的先人，而不是目前的父母或祖父母. 一个非常相似的词是先人. 女性祖先可称为女祖先. 所有的祖先被称为列祖列宗.