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Offspring Biological Word Einstein's ɔfspri ɔ:F N.(单复数同形)儿女,子孙,后代,产物 Puppies

英语单词 offspring
英美音标 ['ɔfspri; 'ɔ:f-]
中文释义 n.(单复数同形)儿女,子孙,后代,产物
vocab简明 Puppies are the offspring, or children, of a mamma dog. You're the offspring of your biological parents.
vocab扩展 This is basically another word for children. Baby horses, gorillas, lizards, and humans are all offspring. A woman who gives birth to quadruplets suddenly has a lot of offspring. But this word isn't limited to biological creations — you could say that a project you've been laboring over is your offspring. Albert Einstein's offspring included many groundbreaking theories, and the scientists who followed up on Einstein's ideas are considered his intellectual offspring.
真题原句 The grand mediocrity of today—everyone being the same in survival and number of offspring—means that natural selection has lost 80% of its power in upper-middle-class India compared to the tribes.
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[N-COUNT 可数名词]孩子;子女;后代;(动物的)崽 You can refer to a person's children or to an animal's young as their offspring .
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  • Eleanor was now less anxious about her offspring than she had once been.

    埃莉诺现在不像以往那样为孩子忧心了。

来源 2000.2

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