descendantKK [dɪˋsɛndənt] /dɪˈsɛndənt/名詞1後裔、子孫、後代Many of his descendants still live in that small fishing village.他的許多後裔至今仍住在那個小漁村。2衍生物、後繼者比喻Italian and Spanish are both descendants of Latin.義大利文和西班牙文都是拉丁文的衍生語言。形容詞1傳下的、世襲的正式The descendant line of the family kept the old title.這個家族的傳承一脈保有那個古老的頭銜。2下降的、向下的罕用The engineer measured the descendant slope of the tunnel.工程師測量了隧道向下傾斜的坡度。