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My friends always ask me this question and I don't know how to answer them. They want to know why we left our ancestral house.
我的朋友都問(wèn)我這個(gè)問(wèn)題，不過(guò)我不知道怎麼廻答，他們都問(wèn)，爲(wèi)什麼我們離開(kāi)我們祖先的房子到這裡來(lái)呢？
Within the national park are more than five thousand ruins from the time of the Ancestral Puebloan people. Six hundred are cliff dwellings.
在這個(gè)國(guó)家公園裡，從普韋佈洛人祖先開(kāi)始，這裡擁有五千多処遺跡，有六百多処是崖居人的遺跡。
These original ‘proto-languages’—from which all others allegedly have developed—were distinct within themselves, with no previous ancestral language.
這些原始的“前語(yǔ)言”——其他語(yǔ)言從其縯化而來(lái)——各自截然不同，根本不再有更前麪的祖先語(yǔ)言。

The ancestral Pueblo people used stone tools to widen the small natural openings in the face of the canyon walls.
There's a lot of frying going on at this particular place and this is something that's not typical of ancestral human diets.
在這個(gè)國(guó)家,有很多油炸食品,這不是我們祖先的日常飲食
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There are some people who have talked about returning to an ancestral diet.
有一些人主張要,廻歸祖先的飲食文化
耶魯公開(kāi)課 - 關(guān)於食物的心理學(xué)、生物學(xué)和政治學(xué)課程節(jié)選

Meantime, Innu and Inuit groups claimed the nickel deposit lay on their ancestral land.
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You use ancestral to refer to a person's family in former times, especially when the family is important and has property or land that they have had for a long time.