基本释义
n. 血统；家系，[遗] 世系
星级词汇
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助记提示
1. line + -age.
2. 这里取 line 的引申义：家族，家系，血统。
英文词源
lineage 宗系，血统
来自line,线，引申词义宗系，血统。
深度学习
lineage (LIN ee ij or LIN ij) Generally speaking, this noun means “ancestry,” the “line” going back to your forebears on the family tree. A chart of the family tree is a called a “pedigree,” from the foot-of-a-crane appearance of such a chart. “Pedigree” is sometimes used informally to refer to an individual’s education or training or to a “purebred” animal’s background.
- Petra brags of tracing her lineage back to Charlemagne, ignoring hundreds of other ancestors who didn’t make the history books.
- “I don’t care about his pedigree,” huffed Mr. Stormer when his daughter began detailing her fiance’s educational background. “Is he a man who’ll treat you right?”
——摘自《Fiske WordPower: The Most Effective System for Building a Vocabulary That Gets Results Fast》
机器翻译，仅供参考
lineage（LIN ee ij或LIN ij）一般来说，这个名词的意思是 “祖先”，即在家谱上追溯到你的祖先的 “线”。家谱的图表被称为 “血统”，来自这种图表的鹤立鸡群的外观。”血统 “有时被非正式地用来指一个人的教育或培训，或指 “纯种 “动物的背景。
佩特拉吹嘘她的血统可以追溯到查理曼大帝，而忽略了其他几百个没有被载入史册的祖先。
“我不关心他的血统，”当他的女儿开始详述她未婚夫的教育背景时，斯托默先生哼了一声。”他是一个会好好对待你的人吗？”
