descent

相關對話：

1. He traces his descent back to an old norman family.
   他追蹤自己的世繫上溯至一個古老的諾曼家族。
2. The descent down the mountain took nearly two hours.
   下山差不多花了兩個小時。
3. There was a descent of temperature after rain.
   雨後氣溫下降了。

英文解釋：

名詞 descent:

1. a movement downward
2. properties attributable to your ancestry
   同義詞：origin, extraction
3. the act of changing your location in a downward direction
4. the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors
   同義詞：line of descent, lineage, filiation
5. a downward slope or bend
   同義詞：declivity, fall, decline, declination, declension, downslope
6. the descendants of one individual
   同義詞：lineage, line, line of descent, bloodline, blood line, blood, pedigree, ancestry, origin, parentage, stemma, stock