descent

汉语翻译

n. 降落, 家系, 侵袭, 血统
【医】 下降, 世代, 血统
【经】 无遗嘱遗产
相关词组:
make a descent upon...

英语解释：

名词 descent:

1. a movement downward
2. properties attributable to your ancestry
   同义词：origin, extraction
3. the act of changing your location in a downward direction
4. the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors
   同义词：line of descent, lineage, filiation
5. a downward slope or bend
   同义词：declivity, fall, decline, declination, declension, downslope
6. the descendants of one individual
   同义词：lineage, line, line of descent, bloodline, blood line, blood, pedigree, ancestry, origin, parentage, stemma, stock

例句：

1. 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。
2. The descent down the mountain took nearly two hours.
   下山差不多花了两个小时。
3. There was a descent of temperature after rain.
   雨后气温下降了。

详细解释：

de.scent

n.（名词）
The act or an instance of descending.
下降，降落：下降的动作或实例
A way down.
下坡路：向下延伸的路
A downward incline or passage; a slope.
斜面，斜坡：向下的斜面；倾斜面


Hereditary derivation; lineage:
出身，血统，祖籍：遗传血统；家系：
例句：
a person of African descent.
一个非洲血统的人

One generation of a specific lineage.
一代家族：某种特殊世家的后代


The fact or process of coming down or being derived from a source:
演化，派生：从某一源泉发展或演化出来的事实或过程：
例句：
a paper tracing the descent of the novel from old picaresque tales.
追溯古老的传奇故事演化到小说的论文

Development in form or structure during transmission from an original source.
发展：演化的过程中在形式或结构上的发展
Law Transference of property by inheritance.
【法律】 继承：通过继承实现的财产转移
A lowering or decline, as in status or level:
（如地位或水平的）下降，转下坡路：
例句：
Her career went into a rapid descent after the charges of misconduct.
在为这次管理不善承担主要责任后，她的职业生涯开始走上急剧的下坡路

A sudden visit or attack; an onslaught.
猛攻：突然拜访（或攻击）；猛攻

来源：
Middle English
中古英语
from Old French
源自 古法语
from descendre [to descend] * see descend
源自 descendre [下降，走下坡路，传下] *参见 descend