posterity

英 [pɒˈsterəti]

美 [pɑːˈsterəti]

n.  后代; 后裔; 子孙; 后世

TOEFLIELTS法律

Collins.1 / BNC.14065 / COCA.16501

牛津词典

noun

• 后代；后裔；子孙；后世
  all the people who will live in the future
  1. Their music has been preserved for posterity .
     他们的音乐已为后世保存起来。
  2. Posterity will remember him as a great man.
     后人将会记住他是个伟人。

柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT 后裔；子孙；后代
  You can refer to everyone who will be alive in the future asposterity.
  1. A photographer recorded the scene on video for posterity...
     摄影师用摄像机为后代记录下了这个场景。
  2. Was he making these notes for the benefit of posterity?
     他写下这些笔记是为让后人受益吗？

英英释义

noun

• all future generations
• all of the offspring of a given progenitor
  1. we must secure the benefits of freedom for ourselves and our posterity
  Synonym:descendants

双语例句

• The poet or the artist never yet had so fair and noble a design but some of his posterity at least could accomplish it.
  诗人和艺术家从未得到这样美丽而崇高的设计，然而至少他的一些后代是能完成它的。
• When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.
  计划生下一代时，我们应该记住美德是不会遗传的。
• Our Founders saw themselves in the light of posterity.
  我国的缔造者是用子孙后代的眼光来审视自己的。
• That herbal prescription has been lost to posterity.
  这种药方没能传下来。
• He left behind an immortal example to his posterity.
  他给子孙树立了不朽的榜样。
• What will posterity decide about these people?
  子孙后代对这些人将会作出什么样的判决？
• But these two are Guru Chen's Bodhi vows, so I like to do them for posterity.
  然而这两篇是陈上师的菩提誓愿，所以我乐意将之写出来留给后人。
• Abraham and his posterity.
  亚伯拉罕与他的子孙。
• Whatever posterity may say, it is difficult to see his equal among his contemporaries.
  无论后代的意见怎样，在他的同时代人中是难以看到能与他匹敌的人物。
• Let us resolve to bequeath renewed prosperity to posterity, not a collapse of the global economy we inherited.
  让我们下定决心，将新的繁荣而非全球经济崩溃的遗赠传承下去。