genealogy

• n. 宗譜；血統；家係；係譜學

gen, 生育，祖先。-logy, 學說。

genealogy (n.)

early 14c., "line of descent, pedigree, descent," from Old French genealogie (12c.), from Late Latin genealogia "tracing of a family," from Greek genealogia "the making of a pedigree," from genea "generation, descent" (see genus) + -logia (see -logy). An Old English word for it was folctalu, literally "folk tale." Meaning "study of family trees" is from 1768.

1. Andy Canvin is a pioneer on the strange frontier of DNA genealogy.

安迪-卡文是DNA譜係學奇異前沿的先鋒人物.

來自英漢非文學 - 生命科學 - 基因與尋祖

2. He had sat and repeated his family's genealogy to her, twenty minutes of nonstop names.

他坐下又給她細數了一遍他家族的家譜，20分鍾內說出了一連串的名字。

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3. He was proficient in all questions of genealogy.

他非常精通所有家譜的問題.

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4. Many libraries specialize in genealogy.

許多圖書館專門收藏氏族家譜.

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5. Usually there is a story of creation and a genealogy of the gods to be remembered.

通常有一些神話和諸神的譜係需要記憶.

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