descendants

英 [dɪˈsɛndənts]

美 [dɪˈsɛndənts]

n.  后裔; 后代; 子孙; (由过去类似物发展来的)派生物
descendant的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 后代;后裔;子孙
  Someone'sdescendantsare the people in later generations who are related to them.
  1. They are descendants of the original English and Scottish settlers.
     他们是最初的英格兰和苏格兰定居者的后代。
  2. ...Lord Cochrane and his descendants.
     科克伦勋爵及其后裔
• N-COUNT 派生物;衍生物;后代产物
  Something modern which developed from an older thing can be called adescendant ofit.
  1. His design was a descendant of a 1956 device...
     他的设计是从一个 1956 年的装置衍生而来的。
  2. They are the descendants of plants imported by the early settlers.
     它们是早期移民带来的一些植物的后代。

英英释义

noun

• all of the offspring of a given progenitor
  1. we must secure the benefits of freedom for ourselves and our posterity
  Synonym:posterity

双语例句

• Their descendants still form identifiable communities.
  他们的后裔仍形成可识别的团体。
• Four centuries later their descendants are less impressed by such adventuring.
  四个世纪之后，他们的后代似乎对于这样的冒险没有那么热情了。
• The descendants of ham became slaves and black.
  含的后代成为了黑人和奴隶。
• Then you Gaima I unfilial descendants.
  这时，你该骂我不孝子孙了。
• From this man's descendants God has brought to Israel the Savior jesus, as he promised.
  从这人的后裔中，神已经照着所应许的，为以色列人立了一位救主，就是耶稣。
• A sin inherited by all descendants of Adam.
  亚当后代的与生俱来的罪恶感。
• This became the inheritance of Joseph's descendants.
  这就作了约瑟子孙的产业。
• So you testify against yourselves that you are the descendants of those who murdered the prophets.
  这就是你们自己证明，是杀害先知者的子孙了。
• I will give you and your descendants the land on which you are lying.
  我要将你现在所躺卧之地赐给你和你的后裔。
• Most of today's Chinese Americans are the descendants of some of the early miners and railroad workers.
  现在的美籍华人大多数都是一些早期矿工和铁路工人的后裔。