Posterity
[ pɑ'stɛrəti ]
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n. 后代，后世;子孙;后裔;儿孙;
💡 词根助记
poster后面+ity表名词→后面的人→后代，子孙
📝 例句
You must stop imagining that posterity will vindicate you.
你可别以为后代会给你昭雪沉冤。
hand...down to posterity
把…传给后世
Byron affected to dispise posterity.
拜伦假装轻视后裔。
Abraham and his posterity.
亚伯拉罕与他的子孙。
The posterity reversed the verdict.
后代把这个案子翻了过来。
🌱 联想助记
post- 后 + er 人，后人，后代
📖 牛津释义
posterity
n[U]
1 following or future generations 後代; 後世
plant trees for the benefit of posterity 为造福後代而植树.
2 (fml 文) person's children, grandchildren, etc; descendants 子孙; 後裔
recorded for posterity 为後人而记载下来的
Posterity will remember him as a truly great man. 他的子孙永远不会忘记他是真正的伟人.
🔁 扩展释义
*[pɒ'steriti]n. 子孙, 后裔【法】 子嗣, 后代, 后裔
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Now that they could ride horses, it became easier to hunt the bison, a type of cattle which used to exist in huge numbers on the plains of America.
当他们从一个营地搬到另一个营地去的时候，他们就可以利用这些野马来运载货物。既然土著人会骑马了，猎取野牛也就容易了。这种野牛以前是成群结队地生活在美洲平原上的。
There are about 50 million sheep in New Zealand, about 14 sheep for every New Zealander!
在新西兰大约有5000万只羊，每个新西兰人拥有14只羊左右！
Some of this heat near the earth's surfact is used to make electricity.
靠近地表的一部分热量已被用来发电。