descent

/di'sent/

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大学英语六级考研英语托福雅思 GRE

中文翻译

n. 降落, 家系, 侵袭, 血统

[医] 下降, 世代, 血统

英文解释

n. a movement downward

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

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

n. a downward slope or bend

词态变化

复数形式:descents

常见例句

n (mountaineering) a descent of a vertical cliff or wall made by using a doubled rope that is fixed to a higher point and wrapped around the body v lower oneself with a rope coiled around the body from a mountainside

-ing form of abseil n (mountaineering) a descent of a vertical cliff or wall made by using a doubled rope that is fixed to a higher point and wrapped around the body v lower oneself with a rope coiled around the body from a mountainside

n line of descent traced through the paternal side of the family

inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent a

a person of Anglo-Saxon (especially British) descent whose native tongue is English and whose culture is strongly influenced by English culture as in WASP for `White Anglo-Saxon Protestant' a