词汇 | descend-from |
释义 | descend from somethingphrasal verb with descendverbuk /dɪˈsend/ us /dɪˈsend/ to have developed from something that existed in the past: 从…发展演变而来 All living creatures are thought to descend from an organism that came into being three billion years ago.据信所有生物都是从30亿年前出现的一种有机体演变而来的。 be descended from someone C2 to be related to a particular person or group of people who lived in the past: 从…繁衍而来;是…的后代 Her father is descended from Greek royalty.她的父亲是希腊皇室的后代。 Innate and congenital American, Italian, etc. by birthphrase birth born born and bredidiom congenital descend heritability inborn inbred inclined inherit inheritable inheritance innate instinct instinctive instinctively instinctual instinctually native descend from someone/something | American Dictionarydescend from someone/somethingphrasal verb with descendverb[ I/T ]us/dɪˈsend/ to have a particular person, group, or type of people in your family background: He is descended from a long line of farmers. If one thing descends from or is descended from another, the later thing develops from the earlier thing: Romance languages are directly descended from Latin. |
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