1SSFCOME FROM/ORIGINATEsomeone who is related to a person who lived a long time ago, or to a family, group of people etc that existed in the past 后代,后裔 → ancestor
somebody’s descendants/the descendants of somebody
The coastal areas were occupied by the descendants of Greek colonists.
2something that has developed from something else 派生物
descendant of
Quechua is a descendant of the Inca language.
克丘亚语是印加语的一种派生语。
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descendant• Paul claims to be a descendant of King Charles I.• The ancestral language can itself be reconstructed from the hints held in its much divergeddescendants.• His descendants were to live here for the next 120 years.• This is because where selfishness brings higher rewards than altruism, selfishindividuals leave more descendants, so altruists inevitably become extinct.• Other descendants of the marineinvertebrates have also left the water.• Frederick and Bertha moved to Iowa in 1852, and their descendants still live in the area.• The city has never officially acknowledged the losses of the displaced residents and their descendants.• Then perhaps a hundred thousand people can change the trend, if they and their descendantslabor for five hundred years.• But neither fish can be regarded as the one whose descendants eventually colonised the land permanently.• Your article made it to a Woodson descendantslist on the Internet of which I am a recipient.
ADJECTIVE➤direct, lineal直接派生的事物;直系後裔◇Quechua, the lineal descendant of the Inca language克丘亞語 - 印加語的直系派生語言➤immediate直接後代▸➤distant遠親後代◇He was an O'Conor and a distant descendant of the last High King of Ireland.他姓奧康納,是愛爾蘭最後一位國王的遠親後代。➤living, modern在世的後人;現代的後裔▸➤spiritual精神傳人◇He is Brecht's spiritual descendant.他是布萊希特的精神傳人。