descendant

英 [dɪ'sendənt] 美 [dɪ'sendənt]

• n. 后裔；子孙；后代

双解释义

n. (名词)

1. [C]后代,后裔

   person descended from another

英英释义

Noun:

1. a person considered as descended from some ancestor or race

Adjective:

1. going or coming down

2. proceeding by descent from an ancestor;

   "descendent gene"
   

例句

用作名词 (n.)

1. He is a descendant of Queen Victoria.
   他是维多利亚女王的后裔。
2. I am a descendant of George Washington.
   我是乔治华盛顿的后代子孙。
3. A static method does not change when inherited by a descendant class.
   当被子孙类继承时，静态方法并不改变。
4. The coastal areas were occupied by the descendants of Greek colonists.
   沿海地带居住着希腊殖民者。
5. Today's bicycles are descendants of the earlier velocipede.
   今天的自行车是从早期的脚踏车发展而来的。

常见句型

用作名词 (n.)

1. They are the descendants of Queen Victoria.
   他们是维多利亚女王的后裔。

经典引文

• The existing forms of life are the descendants by true generation of pre-existing forms.

  出自： C. Darwin

• The Gothic language..has left no direct descendants.

  出自： F. W. Farrar

• A last descendant of one of the Greek Phanariot families that had ruled and exploited Rumania under the Turks.

  出自： O. Manning

• The IRA's claim to be the only true descendants of our Republican martyrs.

  出自： D. Donoghue

词汇搭配

用作名词 (n.)

动词+～

• leave descendant 繁衍

形容词+～

• direct descendant 直接源于
• male descendant 男性后裔
• remote descendant 隔代的后裔

近反义词

【近义词】

• offspring 后代
• child 小孩
• progeny 子孙
• successor 接班人
• heir 继承人
• inheritor 继承人
• issue 议题
• posterity 后代
• limb 肢体
• descendent 下降的

【反义词】

• ancestor 祖宗
• forefather 祖先
• ascendant 上升的