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这里为大家介绍下descent 是什么意思，希望能帮助到各位朋友。

音标：[ di"sent ]名词复数:descents

中英文翻译

n.

1.下降，降下。

2.下坡，倾斜。

3.家世，门第，血统。

4.【法律】继承，世袭。

5.一代；〔古语〕子孙，后裔。

6.突然袭击。

7.屈尊，降格。

短语和例子

be of France descent 祖籍是法国。 be of good descent 出身好。 descent of man 人类由来。 make a descent upon 袭击，侵入。

the act of changing your location in a downward direction

properties attributable to your ancestry; "he comes from good origins"

同义词：origin, extraction,

a movement downward

the descendants of one individual; "his entire lineage has been warriors"

同义词：lineage, line, line of descent, bloodline, blood line, blood, pedigree, ancestry, origin, parentage, stemma, stock,

a downward slope or bend

同义词：declivity, fall, decline, declination, declension, downslope,

the kinship relation between an individual and the individual""s progenitors

同义词：line of descent, lineage, filiation,

例句与用法

1.Are you of english descent ?

你的祖籍是英国吗？

2.The fare for the descent was fixed at five dollars per head .

地下参观的价格是每人五块美金。

3.He traces his descent back to an old norman family .

他追踪自己的世系上溯至一个古老的诺曼家族。

4.The enemy will not have strength to repeat such descents often .

敌人没有经常进行这种空降的力量。

5.Those advisers who aren"t jewish are of british descent .

那几个顾问除了犹太人，就是有英国血统的。

6.In the ancient genus descent was limited to the female line .

在古代的氏祖中，只有按女性下传的世系。

7.This fact is at once explained on the principle of descent .

根据家系的原理，这个事实即时可以得到解释。

8.The trail zigzagged down the abrupt descent of the canyon .

这条小路弯弯曲曲的顺着峡谷那陡削的下坡蜿蜒而下。

9.The dawns were heralded by the descent of a chill stillness .

自天而降的一阵寂寞冷落的清寒，引来了一天的黎明。

10.He proposed that all living things are related by descent .

他提出，所有生物都由它们共同的祖先把彼此相连在一起。

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