Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values.

  • -- Ralph Ellison 埃利森

有些人是你的亲戚,有些人是你的祖先,你选择你想要的人作为祖先。你从这些价值观中创造了自己。

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In time your relatives will come to accept the idea that a career is as important to you as your family. Of course, in time the polar ice cap will melt.

随着时间的推移,你的亲戚们会接受这样的观点:事业和家庭一样重要。当然,随着时间的推移,极地冰盖将会融化。

I've run the marathon several times, so I definitely don't look like the Great Ancestor!

我已经跑过好几次马拉松了,所以我看起来绝对不像那个伟大的祖先!

Relatives are the worst friends, said the fox as the dogs took after him.

亲戚是最坏的朋友,狐狸边说边被狗追赶。

To be an ancestral believer is to be a good ancestor.

做一个祖先的信徒就是做一个好祖先。