| 单词 | descent |
| 释义 | de·scent I. 1. < a parachute descent > < during their descent of the ski run > < some thirty-two separate rapids and cataracts in its final furious descent — Tom Marvel > < descent by chromatic intervals > < ascent and descent between the physical and spiritual worlds — Times Literary Supplement > 2. a. < the descent to being junior partners of the newcomer to world power — D.W.Brogan > < descent of the family to actual shabbiness > b. < look around among my books for a further descent from philosophy to literature — O.W.Holmes †1935 > < descent from self-justification to self-deception > < a sudden descent … from the sublimity of his highfalutin critical terminology — Times Literary Supplement > c. logic 3. a. < only three alternatives are known, namely, patrilineal, matrilineal, or bilateral descent, and every culture incorporates one of these rules or some combination thereof — G.P.Murdock > usually < of Pilgrim stock, eighth in descent through his mother from a governor of the colony > < people of Polish descent > b. obsolete < our descent … born to certain woe, devoured by death — John Milton > c. d. e. < the home of an active legal science which could trace a faint but sure descent from Roman law — R.W.Southern > < there was a line of descent from these ideas to the Fascist movement — Cecil Sprigge > < native American voices tracing their descent from the Know-Nothings of yesterday — T.H.White b.1915 > 4. a. < it appears that the water is broken nowhere by striking against the rocks, and that therefore the descent is perpendicular — Anthony Trollope > b. c. obsolete < from the extremest upward of thy head to the descent and dust below thy foot — Shakespeare > 5. a. < unprepared for the descent of his in-laws > b. < the descent of the Assyrians upon Israel > < descent of the locusts > 6. < his pedigree shows 11 descents > 7. II. |
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