descent

英 [dɪ'sent] 美 [dɪ'sent]

• n. 下降；下坡；家世；血统；侵袭；衰落；继承

双解释义

n. (名词)

1. [C][U]下降,降下; 沦落

   the process of going down

2. [C]下坡

   a way down; downward way

3. [U]血统,出身,门第

   family origins of the stated type

详尽释义

n. 名词

1. 下降，下倾，降下，倾斜
2. 血统；家世，门第，世系
3. 下坡
4. 遗传；派生
5. 衰落，堕落
6. 屈尊，降格
7. 袭击，入侵
8. 【律】继承，世袭
9. 下坡路

英英释义

Noun:

1. a movement downward

2. properties attributable to your ancestry;

   "he comes from good origins"
   

3. the act of changing your location in a downward direction

4. the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors

5. a downward slope or bend

6. the descendants of one individual;

   "his entire lineage has been warriors"
   

例句

用作名词 (n.)

1. There was a descent of temperature after rain.
   雨后气温下降了。
2. The trail zigzagged down the abrupt descent of the canyon.
   这条小路弯弯曲曲的顺着峡谷那陡削的下坡蜿蜒而下。
3. He traces his descent back to an old norman family.
   他追踪自己的世系上溯至一个古老的诺曼家族。
4. Many Americans are of English descent.
   许多美国人的祖籍是英国。
5. The Danes make numerous descent upon the english coast during the 10th century
   丹麦人在十世纪曾对英国海岸发动过无数次袭击
6. His descent into a life of crime made his mother very unhappy.
   他堕落到靠犯罪过活,这使他的母亲非常难过。
7. Real estate is generally acquired by purchase, by descent and devise, or by gift.
   不动产一般通过购买，遗产继承，遗赠和馈赠等方式获得。

常见句型

用作名词 (n.)

1. We watched anxiously during her descent from the tree.
   我们焦急地看着她从树上爬下来。
2. The descent of the mountain took two hours.
   下山花了两个小时。
3. She is of German descent.
   她祖籍是德国。
4. He is of aristocratic descent.
   他出身贵族。

经典引文

• A chieftain of imperial descent.

  出自： J. Yeowell

• The descent of the genus equus from a five-toed mammal not larger than a pig.

  出自： J. Fiske

词汇搭配

用作名词 (n.)

动词+～

• claim descent 声称是…的后代
• make descent 使…下降

形容词+～

• actual descent 真正的后代
• foreign descent 外国血统
• good descent 出身贵族
• vertical descent 垂直下降

词义辨析

n. (名词)

descent, decent

• 这两个词词形相近（只差一个字母s）、读音相似(decent ［'diːsnt］,descent ［dI'sent］)，但词义完全不同。前者意为“体面的”，是形容词；后者意为“血统”，是名词。

近反义词

【近义词】

• decline
• drop
• fall
• origin

【反义词】

• ascent
• climb
• rise