A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
祖先
Ancestors
We forget that the soul has its own ancestors.
我们忘记了灵魂有它自己的祖先。
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。
You ask for the ancestors' help and then help yourself.
你请求祖先的帮助，然后帮助你自己。
Praise borrowed from ancestors is but very sorry praise.
从祖先那里借来的赞美是非常遗憾的赞美。
I think these people have betrayed or have forgotten their ancestors.
我认为这些人背叛或忘记了他们的祖先。
Maybe my caveman ancestors invented the wheel or something. I'm not sure.
也许是我穴居人的祖先发明了轮子什么的。我不确定。
The glory of ancestors should not prevent a man winning glory for himself.
祖先的荣耀不应该阻止一个人为自己赢得荣耀。
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!
Those who never protect the values of their ancestors their soul will never rest peacefully.
那些从不保护祖先价值观的人，他们的灵魂将永远得不到安宁。
Sweden is the home of my ancestors, and I have reserved a special place in my heart for Sweden.
瑞典是我祖先的故乡，我在心中为瑞典保留了一个特别的位置。
None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married.
我们谁也不能夸耀祖先的道德。记录没有显示亚当和夏娃结过婚。
My ancestors wandered lost in the wilderness for forty years because even in biblical times, men would not stop to ask for directions.
我的祖先在旷野迷路了四十年，因为即使在圣经时代，人们也不会停下来问路。
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Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits.
杰出的祖先给他们的后代带来了强大的光芒，禁止隐瞒他们的优点或缺点。
Our cautious ancestors, when yawning, blocked the way to the entrance of evil spirits by putting their hands before their mouths. We find a reason for the gesture in the delicacy of manner which forbids an indecent exposure.
我们谨慎的祖先，在打哈欠的时候，用手捂住嘴，挡住了恶灵的入口。我们找到了一个原因，以微妙的方式，禁止不雅的暴露姿态。
We all have genes that come from our ancestors that aren't used - they're not turned on. So we actually carry ancient genes with us. If you could figure out how to turn those on, you could resurrect ancient characteristics from our ancestors.
我们所有人的基因都来自我们的祖先，而这些基因并没有被利用——它们没有被激活。所以我们实际上携带着古老的基因。如果你能弄明白如何开启它们，你就能从我们的祖先那里复活古老的特征。
Most of us do more than subsist. From the vantage point of our ancestors, we live lives of almost unimaginable ease. Here again, we have innovation to thank.
我们大多数人不仅仅是为了生存而生存。从我们祖先的角度来看，我们过着几乎难以想象的安逸生活。在这里，我们再次感谢创新。
My first name - I have no middle name - was chosen by my father, as he told me, on that solitary walk in the forested hills. He selected it from a verse of the seventh chapter of Isaiah; there was no Immanuel among our ancestors known to him.
我的名字——我没有中间的名字——是我的父亲，正如他告诉我的那样，在那片森林覆盖的山丘上独自行走时，选择了我的名字。他从以赛亚书第七章的一节中拣选了这句话;我们的祖宗中，没有以马内利所认识的。
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.
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。