posterity

posterity什么意思,posterity翻译

基本解释

n.: 后代；子孙；后世；后裔
网络: 子孙后代；后辈

权威解释

• 后代；后裔；子孙；后世:

  all the people who will live in the future

英汉解释

• 后裔,子孙

• 后世,后代

• 子孙;后代

同义词

n.future generationsfuturechildren

反义词

n.ancestors

例句

• 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。

• 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。

• 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。

• 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。

• 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。

• 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。

• 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。

• 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”。

• 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。

• 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。