Offspring的意思|Offspring的解释-里氏词典

offspring ['ɒ:fspriŋ]

n. 子孙, 后代, 产物

[法] 后辈, 子孙, 后裔

offspring

[ noun ]

the immediate descendants of a person

<noun.person>

she was the mother of many offspring

he died without issue

something that comes into existence as a result

<noun.event>

industrialism prepared the way for acceptance of the French Revolution's various socialistic offspring

this skyscraper is the solid materialization of his efforts

any immature animal

<noun.animal>

Offspring \Off"spring`\, n. sing. & pl. [Off + spring.]
1. The act of production; generation. [Obs.]

2. That which is produced; a child or children; a descendant
or descendants, however remote from the stock.

To the gods alone
Our future offspring and our wives are known.
--Dryden.

3. Origin; lineage; family. [Obs.] --Fairfax.

Competing now with those stores is Benetton's offspring, Sisley, with higher-priced versions of its Benetton apparel.
Mosbacher and Bush, both the offspring of wealthy Eastern families, chose to seek their own fortunes in Texas.
The immigrants and their offspring now comprise more than 60 percent of Israel's 4.5 million citizens and constitute a disproportionately large number of the nation's poor.
AT&T, which has changed its position from fiercely fighting divestiture to staunchly supporting restrictions for its offspring, had an easier time than the Justice Department did yesterday.
It's an offspring of international tests, including Soviet trials in Siberia, to develop cold-resistant varieties.
The math model suggests that altruism and monogamy "are a good combination that produces a situation where the individuals who carry this combination have more offspring," said Feldman in a telephone interview.
Ray Hunt's father, the famous wildcatter H.L. Hunt, had three families almost simultaneously, and the feuds between the offspring are legendary.
It protects animals by breeding them in captivity and returning their offspring to the wild.
It is believed that the disease, which has struck in England as well, is not contagious and isn't passed on to offspring.
This is one of the first uses of a new state law that allows action against pesticides believed to harm the offspring of agricultural workers.
For example, little Alice Feagin Jones, who debuted at 8 pounds on Jan. 1, the first baby of 1988 in Frankfort, Ky.; offspring of Wesley and Alice Jones.
The mixing of genes through sex gives the offspring a much better chance of withstanding the host of viruses, bacteria and other parasites that plagued their parents.
The work is a step toward earlier diagnosis of the illness, Friedreich's ataxia, and toward detection of healthy people who unknowingly carry the gene and can pass it to their offspring, the researchers said.
However, that was an old issue, going back 18 years to 1970, when Russian Orthodoxy granted self-governing status to its U.S. offspring, the million-member Orthodox Church in America.
Castrillon's ranch is home to 15 adult minicows and a dozen offspring.
The Batsheva troupe has gone through various mutations since it came into being 30 years ago as a Martha Graham offspring.
Live cattle can be exported only if they are younger than six months and are certified not to be the offspring of a cow suspected of having the virus.
Many parents waited through the Depression and World War II to have children, and their offspring "grew up being told by everyone around them _ and believing _ that they were the most important thing in the world," he said.
Whale experts at the aquarium had no way of knowing what happened to the whale's mother, but speculated she may have rejected her offspring or perhaps gotten sick and died.
Tomaszewski says his purpose is not to bring romance to the bovines, but to help dairy farmers produce the best offspring they can.
They can, as before, complete separate federal income tax returns for each of their offspring who must file.
Men who work at nuclear plants, particularly those who received high radiation doses in the six months before their children's conception, had more offspring with leukemia than men in other jobs, said the study published in the British Medical Journal.
Because the recent jump in births is a result of the children of baby boomers producing their own offspring, social scientists have begun referring to the event as an "echo" of the Baby Boom.
Many of the start-ups, though, have an answer: They're offering high-quality, high-priced care for yuppie offspring.
Aardu shared his home at the zoo with three female wallabies, and zoo officials hope he will eventually father wallaby offspring.
The IBM offspring would rank within the top 200 of the Fortune 500 list of the country's largest corporations based on annual revenue, Mann said.
At the same time, they hope to find a surrogate for their city-slicker offspring: a young aspiring farmer with few resources of his own who would join them on the land, ease them into old age and take over when they retire.
The adopted child also lacks the full rights of natural offspring, including inheritance.
Americans of the giant post-World War II Baby Boom generation are now becoming parents, producing a relatively large number of offspring.
He also said officials were forced to destroy the offspring.

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