parentage
n. 出身,门第; 父母亲的身份; 起源; 亲子关系
Your parentage is the identity and origins of your parents. For example, if you are of Greek parentage, your parents are Greek.
She's a Londoner of mixed parentage (English and Jamaican)...
她是个混血(英国和牙买加)伦敦人。
We are all the result of our parentage and upbringing.
我们都是由各自的出身和教育造就的。
1. the state of being a parent;
2. the kinship relation of an offspring to the parents
3. the descendants of one individual;
They are chiefly of Jewish parentage.
他们大体上有犹太血统.
No society is completely closed to men of extraordinary ability, whatever their parentage.
无论他们父母的地位如何,任何社会都不会把能力非凡的人拒之门外.
Of humble parentage, he began his working life in a shoe factory.
由于出身低微, 他的第一个工作是在一家制鞋厂.
He was born of humble parentage.
他出生寒微.
And I think that sense for the parentage of Australian identity is quite important.
这一点对于澳大利亚自我定位过程中的身世探寻,具有十分重要的意义.