Descendant
[dɪ'send(ə)nt] or [dɪ'sɛndənt]
解释:
(noun.) a person considered as descended from some ancestor or race.
(adj.) proceeding by descent from an ancestor; 'descendent gene' .
(adj.) going or coming down .
手打:奥斯伯特--From WordNet
解释:
(a.) Descendent.
(n.) One who descends, as offspring, however remotely; -- correlative to ancestor or ascendant.
艾德蒙编辑
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Offspring, progeny, stock, scion, seed, branch, issue, house, family, lineage
ANT:Author, founder, parent, ancestor, progenitor, stock, root, source, origin
编辑:珀西
例句:
- Age and heat have not diminished the activity or the eloquence of the descendant of the Malonys and the Molloys. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- Here, at least, the descendant of Alfred still reigns a princess. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- A direct descendant of the school of his countryman, Bergman, he was especially renowned as an analyst. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- He did not mention that he was a lineal descendant of Balaam's ass, but everybody knew that without his telling it. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- The two grandmothers, with not less partiality, but more sincerity, were equally earnest in support of their own descendant. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
- Mathew Grant, the founder of the branch in America, of which I am a descendant, reached Dorchester, Massachusetts, in May, 1630. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
- This one who told me how to make a talisman, comes from Africa, and, I believe, is a descendant of the old Carthaginians. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- John Elliott, a Baptist minister and descendant of an old Revolutionary soldier, Capt. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- Of the English poets of the last and two preceding centuries scarcely a descendant remains,--none have ever been distinguished. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- A baronet, the possessor of a fine estate, the descendant of a great family. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- The more diversified in habits and structure the descendants of our carnivorous animals become, the more places they will be enabled to occupy. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- I see that I hold a sanctuary in their hearts, and in the hearts of their descendants, generations hence. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
- The dominant species belonging to large and dominant groups tend to leave many modified descendants, which form new sub-groups and groups. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- The Israelites held them sacred in the old patriarchal times, and these other Arabs, their lineal descendants, do so likewise. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- But the descendants of Ali were not destined to share in this triumph for long. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- This Pepin it was who finally extinguished the descendants of Clovis. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- China remained united, though not under his descendants, but after a civil war under a fresh dynasty, the Han Dynasty (206 B.C.). 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- I shall, however, if it is not diminished by some accident before my death, leave a considerable estate among my descendants and relations. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
- The six descendants from (I) will form two sub-genera or genera. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- Heaven forbid that I should grudge my native country any portion of the wealth that may be accumulated by our descendants! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- For the most part they have left no descendants. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Of his character we know nothing; but I am sure it was different to his descendants. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- They did not become, as one might suppose, the inhabitants of Hungary, though they have probably left many descendants there. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Those who live to old age, it is said, frequently see there from fifty to a hundred, and sometimes many more, descendants from their own body. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- We, descendants from the one and the other, must be enemies also. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
手打:帕特丽夏