C2a person who is related to you and who lives after you, such as your child or grandchild子孙,后代
He has no descendants.他没有后代。
They claim to be descendants of a French duke.他们自称是一位法国公爵的后代。
We owe it to our descendants (= people younger than us who will live after we have died) to leave them a clean world to live in.给子孙后代留下一个清洁的生活环境是我们的职责。
ADJECTIVE➤direct, lineal直接派生的事物;直系後裔◇Quechua, the lineal descendant of the Inca language克丘亞語 - 印加語的直系派生語言➤immediate直接後代▸➤distant遠親後代◇He was an O'Conor and a distant descendant of the last High King of Ireland.他姓奧康納,是愛爾蘭最後一位國王的遠親後代。➤living, modern在世的後人;現代的後裔▸➤spiritual精神傳人◇He is Brecht's spiritual descendant.他是布萊希特的精神傳人。