descendant经典引文

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

1. going or coming down
2. proceeding by descent from an ancestor;

   "descendent gene"
   

1.后代;后裔;子孙
Someone'sdescendants are the people in later generations who are related to them.

e.g. 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。
e.g. ...Lord Cochrane and his descendants.
科克伦勋爵及其后裔

2.派生物;衍生物;后代产物
Something modern which developed from an older thing can be called adescendant of it.

descendant的近义词

e.g. His design was adescendant of a 1956 device...
他的设计是从一个 1956 年的装置衍生而来的。
e.g. 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。

• leave descendant繁衍

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

• 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