[pɔ'steriti]
posterity
n. 后代

例句与用法:

  1. A mule have neither pride of ancestry nor hope of posterity.
    骡子既无足以自豪的祖宗,亦无可以寄托希望的子孙。
  2. His work must be preserved for posterity.
    他的作品当传诸後世.
  3. He will be greater to posterity if he have be willing to be less great.
    如果他不自命不凡,那么对子孙后代来说,他就会更加伟大。
  4. He left behind an immortal example to all posterity.
    他给后世留下了不朽的典范。

英英解释:

名词 posterity:

  1. all of the offspring of a given progenitor
  2. 同义词:descendants
  3. all future generations