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scion

/sahy-uhn/US // ˈsaɪ ən //UK // (ˈsaɪən) //

后裔,子孙,子孙后代,后嗣

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a descendant.
    • : Also ci·on . a shoot or twig, especially one cut for grafting or planting; a cutting.

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Examples

  • The scion of a wealthy Florida family, Greenberg, now 36, had swept into the Seminole County tax collector’s office in 2016 with a partially self-funded campaign, defeating longtime incumbent and fellow Republican Ray Valdes on the promise of reform.

  • The contemporary State Department is the scion of America’s first intelligence and diplomatic organization, the Committee of Secret Correspondence.

  • Grafting a scion — the flowering, fruiting part of a plant — onto established rootstock can help young fruit trees or vines bear fruit earlier and improve their resistance to pests and disease.

  • Also, as a scion of the Hyatt Hotels family fortune, Microsoft board member, and founder of the Chicago-based PSP Partners investment firm, Pritzker has a nonpareil grasp on the implications for business and investors.

  • He was a scion of immense wealth, a civil rights activist, and an art collector and patron.

  • The party will need to do much, much more than replace one scion with another if it is ever to come back to national prominence.

  • The rock star scion became one of the loudest voices of her generation; prolific on social media and in the British press.

  • A DuPont family scion was convicted of sexually assaulting his daughter but received no jail time.

  • Sharif, 63, was born into money as the scion of a very wealthy family in Lahore.

  • Such an alliance was not to be tolerated for a moment, in connection with the last scion of his name and race.

  • Personally, I enjoyed the frank, untrammelled and prodigiously accomplished scion of a vulgar race.

  • Doctor Bataille, poor man, is the scion of an ordinary ancestry within the narrow limits of flesh and blood.

  • The compulsory subdivision of estates at the death of the owner enables every scion to live, if not to thrive, on the home stock.

  • Why, I assumed that your quest of the quack's scion would have trained you down fit for anything.