Descendants

(noun.) all of the offspring of a given progenitor; 'we must secure the benefits of freedom for ourselves and our posterity'.

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• The more diversified in habits and structure the descendants of our carnivorous animals become, the more places they will be enabled to occupy. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• I see that I hold a sanctuary in their hearts, and in the hearts of their descendants, generations hence. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• The dominant species belonging to large and dominant groups tend to leave many modified descendants, which form new sub-groups and groups. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• The Israelites held them sacred in the old patriarchal times, and these other Arabs, their lineal descendants, do so likewise. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• But the descendants of Ali were not destined to share in this triumph for long. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• This Pepin it was who finally extinguished the descendants of Clovis. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• China remained united, though not under his descendants, but after a civil war under a fresh dynasty, the Han Dynasty (206 B.C.). 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• I shall, however, if it is not diminished by some accident before my death, leave a considerable estate among my descendants and relations. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• The six descendants from (I) will form two sub-genera or genera. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Heaven forbid that I should grudge my native country any portion of the wealth that may be accumulated by our descendants! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• For the most part they have left no descendants. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Of his character we know nothing; but I am sure it was different to his descendants. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• They did not become, as one might suppose, the inhabitants of Hungary, though they have probably left many descendants there. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Those who live to old age, it is said, frequently see there from fifty to a hundred, and sometimes many more, descendants from their own body. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• We, descendants from the one and the other, must be enemies also. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.

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