Well, modern-day dogs are actually their direct descendants.

现代的狗其实是它们的直系后代。

Trilobites have no direct descendants, but their evolutionary cousins are alive and well.

三叶虫没有直系的后代，但它们在演化上的表亲现在仍然活得很好。

Do you really not know, Durbeyfield, that you are a direct descendant of the ancient and noble family of the d'Urbervilles?

德北呀，难道你真的不知道自己是那古老而高贵的德伯家族的一支直系后裔吗？

We're direct descendants of the Qing Dynasty.

我们是清朝皇家的直系后裔。

She claimed to be a direct descendant of Wordsworth.

【direct】她声称是华兹华斯的直系后裔。

They're not direct descendants of the likes of Tiktaalik.

他们不是提塔利克等人的直系后裔。

They’re not direct descendants of the likes of Tiktaalik.

他们不是 提塔利克之类的直系后裔。

We're also not sure if they're direct descendants of proailurus or of  another yet-to-be-discovered species.

我们也不确定它们是 Proailurus 还是另一个尚未发现的物种的直系后代。

However, the most direct descendant of our modern Valentine's Day that's associated with love and romance is from English poet Geoffrey Chaucer.

然而，与现代情人节最直接相关的与爱情和浪漫有关的传统可以追溯到英国诗人杰弗里·乔叟。

He is a direct descendant of the Oba who was exiled by the British in the 19th century.

他是19世纪被英国流放的奥巴家族的直系后裔。

Some scientists think that, while both ray-finned and lobe-finned fish shared common ancestors with armored fish, they aren't their direct descendants.

一些科学家认为， 虽然辐鳍鱼和叶鳍鱼与铠鱼有共同的祖先，但它们不是它们的直系后代。

Martin has long believed that birds arose directly from these pre-dinosaur reptiles, making them distant cousins, not direct descendants of dinosaurs.

马丁长期以来一直认为鸟类直接起源于这些前恐龙爬行动物，使它们成为远亲，而不是恐龙的直系后代。

The history of these creatures shows that they practically invented survival in order for them to finally go extinct and leave no direct descendants.

这些生物的历史表明，它们实际上是为了让它们最终灭绝而不留下任何直系后代而发明了生存。

Because right now on the planet Earth, there are 16 million direct descendants of Genghis Khan, meaning that every day is the birthday of 43,000 of them.

因为现在地球上有1600万成吉思汗的直系后裔，也就是说每天都是43000人的生日。

It had been long believed that they were direct descendants of the very first wave of modern humans that left the African continent for Asia around 50 to 75,000 years ago.

长期以来，人们一直认为他们是大约 5 万到 7.5 万年前离开非洲大陆前往亚洲的第一波现代人类的直系后代。

The Abbasid family capitalized on these sentiments, promoting themselves as more direct descendants of the prophet, though their actual relation to Muhammad was more tenuous than they claimed.

阿拔斯家族利用这些情绪，将自己宣传为先知的直系后裔， 尽管他们与穆罕默德的实际关系比他们声称的要脆弱。

It refers to families in this area who are what we would call direct descendants of the eventual founders of the city of Boston – the people who first came there.

它指的是该地区的家庭，我们称之为波士顿市最终创始人的直系后裔——最先来到那里的人。

Nihau has continually remained privately owned by her direct descendants for the century and a half of history that is followed ever since and it continues to this day to be privately owned by a pair of brothers.

一个半世纪以来，尼豪岛一直由她的直系后裔私人拥有，至今仍由一对兄弟私人拥有。

Geneticists have recently studied the Y chromosomes, which are passed down from father to son, and they have estimated that 0.5 percent of the earth's male population, which equals to around 16 million males, are direct descendants from Genghis Khan.

遗传学家最近研究了由父亲传给儿子的 Y 染色体，他们估计地球男性人口的 0.5%，即大约 1600 万男性，是成吉思汗的直系后代。