descendant
[dɪ'sen.dənt] noun countable
■a person who is related to someone and who lives after them, such as their 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。 Compare ancestor |