英语释义

• all future generations

• all of the offspring of a given progenitor;

  "we must secure the benefits of freedom for ourselves and our posterity"

片语

child（英）蔡尔德（人名）

progeny子孙；后裔；成果

Famous Posterity桂子兰孙

Light Posterity光照后人

seed(Seed)人名；(英)锡德

For Posterity唱片名

segregation posterity后代分离

warning posterity警示功能

posterity offspring一个祖先的直到最远一代的后裔

antecedence posterity祖先

hybrid posterity杂种后代

Without Posterity没有后代

英汉例句

• dare not boast of good, frighten posterity never boast become don「t talk.

  敢说大话的人得不到好下场，吓得后人从不说大话变成不说话。

• and we formed it not to give theblessings of liberty but to secure them; not to the half of ourselves and thehalf of our posterity but to the whole people — women as well as men.

  我们组成了我们的国家，不仅为了自由而祈祷而要践行它。不仅仅为了一半的人民和一半的后代-女人和男人应该一样。

• posterity found ali right and his critics wrong: human institutions do have a place in settling issues of state.

  后人发现阿里是对的，其批评者是错的：人类机构确实在解决国家问题上占一席之地。

• that rashness was taught a lesson. posterity is glad to quote her remark, but forgets to judge it.

  这种轻率和莽撞倒是给她上了一课，因为后代之人乐于引用她的话，却忘记了对此作出评判。

• speak unto the children of israel, saying, if any man of you or of your posterity shall be unclean by reason of a dead body, or be in a journey afar off, yet he shall keep the passover unto the lord.

  你晓谕以色列人说，你们和你们后代中，若有人因死尸而不洁凈，或在远方行路，还要向耶和华守逾越节。

• he declared himself to be 「torn」 between his obligations to posterity and to his father」s shade.

  他宣称自己在作为子孙的责任和父亲的阴影之间左右为难。

• posterity may indeed one day thank the president for taking america a giant step closer to entrenching the principle of universal health coverage that other rich countries take for granted.

  子孙后代也许有一天会感谢奥巴马，带领美国向确立全民医疗保险原则迈进了一大步，而其他富国都认为全民医保不成问题。

相似词

following在（某事）以后

future将来的，未来的

offspring后代，子孙；产物

and(And)人名；(土、瑞典)安德

progeny子孙；后裔；成果

brood一窝鸟，一窝动物；一大家孩子；幼蜂；一类（事物），一伙（人）

family家庭的；家族的；适合于全家的

issue发行；流出；造成…结果；传下

seed(Seed)人名；(英)锡德

children孩子们（child的复数）

descendants后代，晚辈（descendant的复数）；子节点；衍生物

descendant下降的；祖传的

heir[法] 继承人；后嗣；嗣子

successor继承者；后续的事物

相反词

ancestry祖先；血统