de.scent

descent的音标和读音：
DJ音标发音： [diˈsent]
KK音标发音： [dɪˈsɛnt]

descent的词性：
n.（名词）

1. The act or an instance of descending.
下降，降落：下降的动作或实例

2. A way down.
下坡路：向下延伸的路

3. A downward incline or passage; a slope.
斜面，斜坡：向下的斜面；倾斜面

4. Hereditary derivation; lineage:
出身，血统，祖籍：遗传血统；家系：

a person of African descent.
一个非洲血统的人

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

6. 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：

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

7. 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

8. Law Transference of property by inheritance.
【法律】 继承：通过继承实现的财产转移

9. A lowering or decline, as in status or level:
（如地位或水平的）下降，转下坡路：

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

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

descent的词源：

11. Middle English
中古英语

12. from Old French
源自 古法语

13. from descendre [to descend] * see descend
源自 descendre [下降，走下坡路，传下] *参见 descend