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

• The so-called guest workers ( Gastarbeiter) and their descendants form an important minority group in Austria.
  所谓的外来工人（客籍工人）和他们的后裔组成了奥地利的很重要的少数民族。
• 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。
• Thus," descendants of the dragon"," the dragon "also gained world recognition.
  因而，“龙的传人”、“龙的国度”也获得了世界的认同。
• You can traverse the repository using the children and/ or descendants of a folder.
  使用一个文件夹的“子”文件夹和/或“后代”文件夹遍历存储库。
• Are they Abraham's descendants? So am I.
  他们是亚伯拉罕的后裔麽.我也是。
• These were the descendants of Joseph by their clans.
  按着家族，这就是约瑟的子孙。
• With her dying breath, Queen Dido pronounced a malediction on Aeneas and all his descendants.
  凭借自己垂死的气息，迪多女王对阿因尼亚斯和他所有的子孙后代发出了诅咒。
• 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。
• 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。
• They are all Sun Quan's descendants living in Longmen.
  他们都是居住在龙门镇的孙权后裔。