柯林斯詞典descendant /d??s?nd?nt/ (also descendent) (descendants) 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. 他們是最初的英格蘭和蘇格蘭移民的后裔。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. 他的設(shè)計(jì)是1956年一個(gè)裝置的衍生物。 返回 descendant劍橋詞典a person who is related to you and who lives after you, such as your child or grandchild 子孫,后代 He has no descendants. 他沒(méi)有后代。 They claim to be descendants of a French duke . 他們自稱是一位法國(guó)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. 給子孫后代留下一個(gè)清潔的生活環(huán)境是我們的職責(zé)。 比較ancestor 返回 descendant