Posterity
[pɒ'sterɪtɪ] or [pɑ'stɛrəti]
解釋/意思:
(n.) The race that proceeds from a progenitor; offspring to the furthest generation; the aggregate number of persons who are descended from an ancestor of a generation; descendants; -- contrasted with ancestry; as, the posterity of Abraham.
(n.) Succeeding generations; future times.
达斯汀錄入
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Descendants, offspring, progeny, after ages, succeeding generations.
手打:曼弗雷德
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Futurity
ANT:Ancestry
手打:利蒂希娅
娱乐性解釋/意思：
n. An appellate court which reverses the judgment of a popular author's contemporaries the appellant being his obscure competitor.
手打:罗莎琳德
例句/造句/用法:
- Until Edison made his wonderful invention in 1877, the human race was entirely without means for preserving or passing on to posterity its own linguistic utterances or any other vocal sound. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- We are not apt to imagine our posterity will excel us, or equal our ancestors. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- Every invention made is another permanent gift to posterity. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- At one time he said, Whoever wishes to enjoy peace, and is gifted with great talents, must labor for posterity. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- The future liberation of the public revenue they leave to the care of posterity. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Since you have preserved my narration, said he, I would not that a mutilated one should go down to posterity. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- Posterity became my heirs. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- An original creative impulse of the mind expresses itself in a certain formula; posterity mistakes the formula for the impulse. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Or as if he were bound to provide charms for his posterity in his own person! 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- As in the case of Alexander the Great and Julius C?sar, posterity has enormously exaggerated his memory. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- It is our nature to wish to continue our systems and thoughts to posterity through our own offspring. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Here you would know and enjoy what posterity will say of Washington. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- And posterity have also sometimes equally misapprehended the real value of his speculations. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- It is to be hoped that at no distant day these Edisoniana will be assembled and arranged in a fireproof museum for the benefit of posterity. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Some go further, and speak of a fair posterity in the third and fourth generation. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
編輯:希娜