"progenitor" in Chinese (Traditional)

• 祖先
• 始祖

Definition

祖先是指某人或某物的起源，可以是家族血統中的祖先，也可以是某個思想或運動的創始者。

Usage Notes (Chinese (Traditional))

正式、學術用語，常見於科學、家譜或歷史領域。在家族中指遠祖，非直接父母。也指想法、運動、物種的創始人。日常很少使用。

Examples

Charles Darwin is a progenitor of evolutionary theory.

查爾斯·達爾文是進化論的**祖先**之一。

My family's earliest known progenitor lived in the 1700s.

我家已知最早的**祖先**生活在18世紀。

A lion is the common progenitor of many big cats.

獅子是許多野生大貓共同的**祖先**。

The company’s founder is often called the progenitor of its culture.

公司創始人常被稱為企業文化的**始祖**。

Many scientists regard Einstein as a progenitor of modern physics.

許多科學家認為愛因斯坦是現代物理學的**始祖**。

He likes to trace his roots back to a famous progenitor in his ancestry.

他喜歡追溯家族根源到一位著名的**祖先**。