Word · CEFR C1 · Frequency #5729
offspring
子女；后代；子孙
核心释义
a person's child or children; descendants
- 1.
一个人的女儿或儿子；孩子
A person's daughter or son; a person's child.
- 2.
一个人的直系后代
the immediate descendants of a person
- 3.
一个人的后代,包括后代的后代
Any of a person's descendants, including of further generations.
- 4.
作为结果而产生的事物
something that comes into existence as a result
- 5.
动物或植物的后代或幼崽
An animal or plant's progeny or young.
- 6.
任何未成熟的动物
any immature animal
- 7.
任何产生的东西；实体努力的结果
Anything produced; the result of an entity's efforts.
- 8.
由另一个进程启动的进程。
A process launched by another process.
一个人的女儿或儿子；孩子；一个人的直系后代；一个人的后代,包括后代的后代；作为结果而产生的事物；动物或植物的后代或幼崽
用法In use
Their offspring have all graduated from college.
用法提示：offspring 为名词，在句中作主语，表示“子女、后代”。
She devoted her life to raising her offspring.
用法提示：offspring 是名词，作 raising 的宾语，指“子女”。
They are proud of their offspring's achievements at school.
用法提示：offspring 是名词，以所有格形式 offspring's 出现，指“子女”。
she was the mother of many offspring
industrialism prepared the way for acceptance of the French Revolution's various socialistic offspring
offspring of
表示某生物或人的后代，常跟介词of。
相关词与表达Connections
搭配Collocations
- raise offspring
- 抚养后代
- Many animals devote much energy to raising their offspring.许多动物花费大量精力抚养后代。
- produce offspring
- 繁衍后代
- The couple was delighted to produce healthy offspring.这对夫妇很高兴生下了健康的子女。
- offspring of
- ……的产物
- The new theory is the offspring of years of research.这个新理论是多年研究的产物。
- surviving offspring
- 存活的后代
- Only a fraction of the eggs produce surviving offspring.只有一小部分卵能孵化出存活的后代。
- parent and offspring
学习提示Learner notes
记忆技巧Memory Tip
想象孩子像小动物一样从父母身边‘spring off’（弹开），就是后代。
语境与语域Context & Register
通常用于正式或学术语境，指人类或动物的后代，也可指产物。
发音与拼写Pronunciation & Spelling
Words ending in -ing (spring, string, bring, thing, ring) share the unstressed /ɪŋ/ ending with the second syllable of 'offspring' but do not rhyme due to different stress placement. 'Off' shares the initial stressed syllable /ɔf/. These words are useful for recognising the spelling pattern of the compound 'offspring'.
用法优先级Usage priority
Collins 词频等级为 1，建议结合例句记忆，而不是只背中文释义。
一起学习词形Learn the forms together
页面下方列出了常见词形变化。学习时注意它们在句子中的语法位置。
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