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

• All my posterity has blue eyes just like mine.
  我的子孙们都和我一样是蓝眼睛的。
• Posterity will judge these leaders on how they respond.
  子孙后代将根据这些领导人的行动，对他们做出评价。
• Posterity judges risk takers more kindly than their contemporaries do.
  与同时代的人相比，后人对冒险者的评判更为友好。
• This fine building should be preserved for posterity.
  这一优美的建筑应该保护好留给子孙后代。
• 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。
• It's uncertain whether our posterity can survive seven more generations.
  我们的子孙也不知能否再活七代。
• He left behind an immortal example to his posterity.
  他给子孙树立了不朽的榜样。
• Two of his works have been handed down to posterity.
  他有两部作品传世。
• 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。
• 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。