中英互译
posterity
英 /pɒˈsterəti/美 /pɑːˈsterəti/
基本释义
- n.子孙,后裔;后代
GMAT
双语例句
- Posterity will remember him as a great man.后人将会记住他是个伟人。来自《牛津词典》
- A photographer recorded the scene on video for posterity.一位摄影师为子孙后代摄下了这个场面。来自《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
- Their music has been preserved for posterity.他们的音乐已为后世保存起来。来自《牛津词典》
网络短语
- bring benefits to our posterity造福子孙
- Posterity And Perplexity碧云天
- antecedence posterity祖先
- segregation posterity后代分离
- descendant posterity progeny后裔
同义词
词义分布
后代
38%
后人
36.7%
子孙
10.1%
后裔
7.6%
子孙后代
7.6%
英英释义
- n.all of the offspring of a given progenitor
- n.all future generations
词源
- posterity后代,后世来自拉丁语posterus,在后的,后面的,来自post,在后,-ity,名词后缀。