- 1後世（比「子孫」寬：指你死後還會活著的人，不限自己的後代）
Posterity is all the people who will be alive after you are dead — the future, not one child, not even just your family. When someone keeps a letter, a photo, or a building for posterity, they want people who are not born yet to see it. You hear it most in the set phrase for posterity. It is a , serious word. You would not use it when you chat about weekend plans. Though actually, it is bigger than 子孫: your grandchildren are part of posterity, but so are strangers a hundred years from now. It has nothing to do with a poster on the wall, and nothing to do with prosperity (being rich). Those only look a little like it.
組成Late 14th century, from Middle French posterité, from Latin posteritas, from posterus (following, coming after), from post (after).
同家族的字
- posthumousboth from Latin posterus, coming after
- posteriorfrom the same Latin posterus, coming after
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
posteritynoun/pɒˈstɛɹɪti/
- 1
All the future generations, especially the descendants of a specific person.
- That woman foretold and inflicted a singular disease on Sigvard and his posterity till the ninth generation, and several of his descendants are to this day afflicted with it.
- The original family who had begun to build a palace to rival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway, so that the actual structure which had come down to posterity retained the secret magic of a promise rather than the overpowering splendour of a great architectural achievement.
- 2
Future audiences, future times, future recognition.
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