英语词典

posterity的意思

posterity


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  • n.后代;子孙;后世;后裔
  • 网络子孙后代;后辈

近义词

    n.future generations,future,children

反义词

    n.ancestors

权威英汉双解

    Their music has been preserved for posterity .

    他们的音乐已为后世保存起来。

    Posterity will remember him as a great man.

    后人将会记住他是个伟人。

英汉释义

  • n.

    1.后世,后代

    2.后裔,子孙

英英释义

  • n.

    1.the people who will live in the future after you are dead

英汉例句

  • 1.Work written deliberately for posterity tends to be ignored by posterity as well as by its own generation.

    存心传世的著作,往往不为后世子孙和当代人士重视。

  • 2.If there is candor in the world, the truth of these assertions will not be questioned; posterity at least will do justice to them.

    若世上有公理存在,这些辩护的真实性将不致遭受怀疑,至少后世子孙会给予它们公平的裁决。

  • 3.Mr Fellows said it was the first egg within an egg he had ever seen and that he would be keeping the mini-egg for posterity .

    菲罗斯称这是他第一次遇到蛋中藏蛋的情况,并且准备将这枚迷你蛋就给子孙。

  • 4.That all the earth may know that thou art the Lord our God, and that thy name is called upon Israel, and upon his posterity.

    叫全地都知道你是上主,我们的天主,因为以色列和他的后裔,是归你名下的。

  • 5.We thought we were documenting it for posterity, but there they are, haunting me with an exactness that doesn't even scratch the surface.

    我们以为自己是在为子孙保存纪录,但它们只是忠实地记录了我没刮胡子的样子。

  • 6.I Would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.

    只要我能把为人诚实的名声传给子孙,我根本不在乎世人怎样评价我。

  • 7.In the desert, he might have addressed himself more entirely to his true audience, posterity.

    在沙漠里,他倒更能够推心置腹地对真正的听众--后世子孙--讲话。

  • 8.Even one of his most hostile critics acknowledged that he described London "like a special correspondent for posterity" .

    就连最有敌意的评论家都承认狄更斯像一个“为子孙后代描写伦敦的特殊记者”。

  • 9.If he fretted about what posterity would think of him, it was probably because he doubted our willingness to acknowledge his greatness.

    如果他还会纠结于后人对他的评价,那可能是因为他怀疑我们是否愿意承认他的伟大。

  • 10.Desire to see things, as they are, to find out true facts and store them up for the use of posterity.

    有志按事物的原貌来观察理解事物;有心寻找确凿的事实,收集储存以飨后人。

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