英语单词 | offspring |
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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. |
柯林斯星级 | ★☆☆☆☆ |
柯林斯解释 | 1 [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 . [oft with poss] [INFORMAL 非正式]
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来源 | 2000.2 |
Tags: 单词::2000
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