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单词 posterity
释义
posterity
(pɒsterɪti )
uncountable noun [oft for N]
You can refer to everyone who will be alive in the future as posterity. [formal]
A photographer recorded the scene for posterity.
Was he making these notes for the benefit of posterity?
Synonyms: the future, future generations, succeeding generations  
Quotations:
`We are always doing,' says he, `something for Posterity, but I would fain see Posterity doing something for us.'Joseph Addison
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