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单词 posterity
释义 posterity
 /po ster"i tee/,  n.  
  1. succeeding or future generations collectively: Judgment of this age must be left to posterity.
  2. all descendants of one person: His fortune was gradually dissipated by his posterity.
 [1350-1400; ME posterite < L posteritas, n. deriv. of posterus coming after. See POSTERIOR, -ITY]
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