parentage
n. 出身,門第; 父母親的身份; 起源; 親子關係
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)...
她是個混血(英國和牙買加)倫敦人。
We are all the result of our parentage and upbringing.
我們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.
他們大體上有猶太血統.
No society is completely closed to men of extraordinary ability, whatever their parentage.
無論他們父母的地位如何,任何社會都不會把能力非凡的人拒之門外.
Of humble parentage, he began his working life in a shoe factory.
由於出身低微, 他的第一個工作是在一家制鞋廠.
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.
這一點對於澳大利亞自我定位過程中的身世探尋,具有十分重要的意義.