Descent

(noun.) the act of changing your location in a downward direction.

(noun.) a movement downward.

(noun.) a downward slope or bend.

(noun.) the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors.

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• By turning the wheel any type can be brought to the front, and a stationary guide controls its descent as it makes the impression. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• And it is now well known that he attributes this coincidence to descent with modification. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Turning to geographical distribution, the difficulties encountered on the theory of descent with modification are serious enough. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• I heard of the division of property, of immense wealth and squalid poverty; of rank, descent, and noble blood. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• The descent of the mountain was a labor of only four minutes. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• As we have no written pedigrees, we are forced to trace community of descent by resemblances of any kind. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Mr. Bucket, breaking off, has made a noiseless descent upon mademoiselle and laid his heavy hand upon her shoulder. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• The real affinities of all organic beings, in contradistinction to their adaptive resemblances, are due to inheritance or community of descent. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• The term variety is almost equally difficult to define; but here community of descent is almost universally implied, though it can rarely be proved. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Facing Huxley with a smiling insolence, he begged to know, _was it through his grandfather or grandmother that he claimed his descent from a monkey_? 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The fifth compartment represents the clown as having jumped over pantaloon's head, and coming down to the ground; and in each succeeding division his farther descent is shown, till, in No. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• You will have plenty of time to look at them again, he said as they resumed their descent, but at present I have plenty to show you. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• See you not the thunderbolt fall, and are deafened by the shout of heaven that follows its descent? 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• By and by he made another descent upon us with the same inquiry, and the same result. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• How young Woolwich cleans the drum-sticks without being of ostrich descent, his anxious mother is at a loss to understand. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Hence the public has the right of regulating descents, and all other conveyances of property, and even of limiting the quantity and the uses of it. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• With his boat, the Nautilus, he made numerous descents, going down twenty-five feet in the harbor of Brest and remaining there an hour. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.

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