Descendant
[dɪ'send(ə)nt] or [dɪ'sɛndənt]
解釋/意思:
(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
解釋/意思:
(a.) Descendent.
(n.) One who descends, as offspring, however remotely; -- correlative to ancestor or ascendant.
艾德蒙編輯
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Offspring, progeny, stock, scion, seed, branch, issue, house, family, lineage
ANT:Author, founder, parent, ancestor, progenitor, stock, root, source, origin
編輯:珀西
例句/造句/用法:
- 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·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Here, at least, the descendant of Alfred still reigns a princess. 沃爾特·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. 世紀發明.
- He did not mention that he was a lineal descendant of Balaam's ass, but everybody knew that without his telling it. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- The two grandmothers, with not less partiality, but more sincerity, were equally earnest in support of their own descendant. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- 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·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- This one who told me how to make a talisman, comes from Africa, and, I believe, is a descendant of the old Carthaginians. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- John Elliott, a Baptist minister and descendant of an old Revolutionary soldier, Capt. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Of the English poets of the last and two preceding centuries scarcely a descendant remains,--none have ever been distinguished. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- A baronet, the possessor of a fine estate, the descendant of a great family. 威爾基·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. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- I see that I hold a sanctuary in their hearts, and in the hearts of their descendants, generations hence. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- The dominant species belonging to large and dominant groups tend to leave many modified descendants, which form new sub-groups and groups. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- The Israelites held them sacred in the old patriarchal times, and these other Arabs, their lineal descendants, do so likewise. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- But the descendants of Ali were not destined to share in this triumph for long. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- This Pepin it was who finally extinguished the descendants of Clovis. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- 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·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- I shall, however, if it is not diminished by some accident before my death, leave a considerable estate among my descendants and relations. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- The six descendants from (I) will form two sub-genera or genera. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- Heaven forbid that I should grudge my native country any portion of the wealth that may be accumulated by our descendants! 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- For the most part they have left no descendants. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Of his character we know nothing; but I am sure it was different to his descendants. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- They did not become, as one might suppose, the inhabitants of Hungary, though they have probably left many descendants there. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- 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. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- We, descendants from the one and the other, must be enemies also. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
手打:帕特丽夏