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这里为大家介绍下posterity 是什么意思，希望能帮助到各位朋友。

音标：[ pɔs"teriti ]

中英文翻译

n.

〔集合词〕

1.后裔，子孙。

2.后世，后代。

短语和例子

write for posterity 为后代写作。

all future generations

all of the offspring of a given progenitor; "we must secure the benefits of freedom for ourselves and our posterity"

同义词：descendants,

例句与用法

1.The posterity reversed the verdict .

后代把这个案子翻了过来。

2.You must stop imagining that posterity will vindicate you .

你可别以为后代会给你昭雪沉冤。

3.Posterity seemed to follow his steps as a train of clients .

子孙后代似乎象一排门客，跟随在他的身后。

4.It should be said that, upon poe, the verdict of posterity has not been unanimous .

应该说，后人对坡的评价不一。

5.Posterity will remember him for the books in which neither farce nor bleakness has the upper hand .

后代记得他，因为他写过几部既不胡闹也不阴冷的书。

6.Posterity will remember him for the books in which neither farce nor bleakness has the upper hand .

后代不会忘记他，因为他写过几部既不胡闹也不阴冷的书。

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.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。

9.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。

10.Posterity will remember him for the books in which neither farce nor bleakness has the upper hand, but in which affection and close knowledge are united .

后代记得他因为他写过几部既不胡闹也不阴冷的书，其中既有热情，又有切实的知识。

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