descendant
柯林斯词典
1. N-COUNT Someone's descendants are the people in later generations who are related to them. 后代
They are descendants of the original English and Scottish settlers. 他们是最初的英格兰和苏格兰移民的后裔。
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. 他的设计是1956年一个装置的衍生物。
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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
子孙，后代
He has no descendants. 他没有后代。
They claim to be descendants of a French duke . 他们自称是一位法国公爵的后代。
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. 给子孙后代留下一个清洁的生活环境是我们的职责。
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