descendant
柯林斯词典
1. N-COUNT Someone's descendants are the people in later generations who are related to them. 後代
They are descendants of the original English and Scottish settlers. 他們是最初的英格蘭和囌格蘭移民的後裔。
2. N-COUNT Something modern which developed from an older thing can be called a descendant of it. 衍生物
His design was a descendant of a 1956 device. 他的設計是1956年一個裝置的衍生物。
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descendant /dɪˈsɛndənt/ (also descendent) (descendants)
剑桥词典
- a person who is related to you and who lives after you, such as your child or grandchild
子孫，後代
He has no descendants. 他沒有後代。
They claim to be descendants of a French duke . 他們自稱是一位法國公爵的後代。
We owe it to our descendants (= people younger than us who will live after we have died ) to leave them a clean world to live in. 給子孫後代畱下一個清潔的生活環境是我們的職責。
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