Offspring
['ɒfsprɪŋ] or ['ɔfsprɪŋ]
解释:
(noun.) something that comes into existence as a result; 'industrialism prepared the way for acceptance of the French Revolution's various socialistic offspring'; 'this skyscraper is the solid materialization of his efforts'.
(noun.) the immediate descendants of a person; 'she was the mother of many offspring'; 'he died without issue'.
布赖恩手打--From WordNet
解释:
(n.sing. & pl.) The act of production; generation.
(n.sing. & pl.) That which is produced; a child or children; a descendant or descendants, however remote from the stock.
(n.sing. & pl.) Origin; lineage; family.
整理:卢修斯
同义词及近义词：
n. Issue, progeny, child or children, descendant or descendants, posterity.
凯瑟琳整理
娱乐性解释：
To dream of your own offspring, denotes cheerfulness and the merry voices of neighbors and children. To see the offspring of domestic animals, denotes increase in prosperity.
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例句:
- Independently of the question of fertility, the offspring of species and of varieties when crossed may be compared in several other respects. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- Hence very few of the original species will have transmitted offspring to the fourteen-thousandth generation. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- The offspring nestled to the parent; that parent, feeling the endearment and hearing the appeal, gathered her closer still. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- Unless favourable variations be inherited by some at least of the offspring, nothing can be effected by natural selection. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- He saw Satan, and Sin his daughter, and Death their horrible offspring. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- Pure species have of course their organs of reproduction in a perfect condition, yet when intercrossed they produce either few or no offspring. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- At this period, the termination of an animal's love for its offspring,--the true affection of the human parent commences. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- I have myself recently bred a foal from a bay mare (offspring of a Turkoman horse and a Flemish mare) by a bay English race-horse. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- The attachment between them led to the ill-fated marriage, of which I was the offspring. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more, and so on. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
- It was a brave conception; it was the offspring of a most ingenious brain. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- Nor have these publications been all party pamphlets, the wretched offspring of falsehood and venality. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- The effects on the offspring are either definite or in definite. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- The three _colour processes_ is the name given to the new offspring of the inventors which reproduces by the camera the natural colours of objects. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- And the time is not yet passed when we punish the offspring of illicit love, and visit vengeance unto the third and fourth generations. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
编辑:丽诺尔