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

• 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。
• We must secure the benefits of freedom for ourselves and our posterity.
  我们必须为我们和我们的后代保护自由的权益。
• His painting technic provided example to posterity.
  在绘画技巧方面，他给后人提供了许多借鉴。
• Abraham and his posterity.
  亚伯拉罕与他的子孙。
• 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。
• Posterity, of course, has endorsed Hawthorne's judgement.
  后世的人们当然是赞同霍桑的评价的。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Nothing can go down to posterity, such as love.
  没有什么，可以永垂不朽，比如爱情。