| 词汇 | posterity |
| 释义 | posterity noun[ U ] formaluk /pɒsˈter.ə.ti/ us /pɑːˈster.ə.t̬i/ the people who will exist in the future: 后裔，子孙，后代 Every attempt is being made to ensure that these works of art are preserved for posterity.正在采取一切措施以确保这些艺术品能流传后世。 In the future & soon ahead ahead of all in good timeidiom anon ASAP away come futuristically gonna hereon in in for somethingidiom PDQ presently run shortly someday sometime space yet posterity | American Dictionaryposterity noun[ U ] us/pɑˈster·ɪ·t̬i/ the people who will exist in the future: Their recollections were recorded for posterity. Examples of posterityposterity Given their own intervention in the material they copied, it seems improbable that they would have regarded their texts as set down for posterity. The handling, then, goes both ways, as the immaterial ghosts become blooded with desire for the soul of posterity. Further more, there were recognized contemporary methods of coping with an incapacitated ruler, which would have been far harder to conceal from posterity. Why did these documents disappear from an office in which even the smallest and apparently most insignificant drawing was saved for posterity? Tempting as it would be to attempt a 'history from below ', the soldier's voice has not been directly transmitted to posterity. His posterity wept, all believing he was buried in the bellies of fishes. For fear that dialects would fade away before being recorded for posterity, dialectologists have concentrated their investigations on the description of the old dialect forms. Given the general lack of regard for film posterity among early twentieth-century producers and distributors, their disregard for the film's posterity is unsurprising. Often, the deals they struck, like other legal contracts, were witnessed by notaries and recorded for posterity in the beautiful hand of notarial scribes. For that surely is his greatest title to human recognition and posterity's regard. Let us hope that detailed notes of their strategic discussions have been preserved for posterity. Yet the time scheme of the memorialists, despite its tense orientation to posterity, was not quite like that of a traditional value system. Until the advent of sound recording, the only way of preserving music for posterity was through notation. The history of these times we will continue to pass on to posterity. Since the early 1900s, all this has changed: popular music has been preserved for posterity. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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