Offspring
['ɒfsprɪŋ] or ['ɔfsprɪŋ]
解釋/意思:
(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
解釋/意思:
(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
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Issue, progeny, child or children, descendant or descendants, posterity.
凯瑟琳整理
娱乐性解釋/意思：
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.
哈里森校對
例句/造句/用法:
- Independently of the question of fertility, the offspring of species and of varieties when crossed may be compared in several other respects. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- Hence very few of the original species will have transmitted offspring to the fourteen-thousandth generation. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- 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. 雪麗.
- Unless favourable variations be inherited by some at least of the offspring, nothing can be effected by natural selection. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- He saw Satan, and Sin his daughter, and Death their horrible offspring. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Pure species have of course their organs of reproduction in a perfect condition, yet when intercrossed they produce either few or no offspring. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- At this period, the termination of an animal's love for its offspring,--the true affection of the human parent commences. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- 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. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- The attachment between them led to the ill-fated marriage, of which I was the offspring. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more, and so on. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- It was a brave conception; it was the offspring of a most ingenious brain. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Nor have these publications been all party pamphlets, the wretched offspring of falsehood and venality. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The effects on the offspring are either definite or in definite. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- 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. 世紀發明.
- And the time is not yet passed when we punish the offspring of illicit love, and visit vengeance unto the third and fourth generations. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
編輯:丽诺尔