posterity

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishposteritypos‧ter‧i‧ty /pɒˈsterəti $ pɑː-/ noun [uncountable] formal FUTUREall the people in the future who will be alive after you are deadpreserve/record/keep etc something for posterity a priceless work of art that must be kept for posterityExamples from the Corpusposterity• It is hard to know now whether Eden was really being serious, or merely protecting himself for posterity.• Not only would that further damage his image for posterity.• It so happens that Parrhasios composed his own review for posterity, namely the epitaph inscribed on his tombstone.• If you want your hand written words of wisdom saved for posterity use quality paper and permanent ink.• Perhaps she simply wanted to hear herself perform, unless of course she hoped to leave posterity an example of her playing.• Such a pleasure I hope is before us and our posterity under the influence of the new government...• One can imagine them forthrightly shaking hands and congratulating and thanking each other, but the words are lost to posterity.preserve/record/keep etc something for posterity• This wise precaution preserved the Garden for posterity.• All V-Discs were to be destroyed after the war, but the Smithsonian kept a set for posterity, thankfully.

单词	posterity
释义	posterity From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishposteritypos‧ter‧i‧ty /pɒˈsterəti $ pɑː-/ noun [uncountable] formal FUTUREall the people in the future who will be alive after you are deadpreserve/record/keep etc something for posterity a priceless work of art that must be kept for posterityExamples from the Corpusposterity• It is hard to know now whether Eden was really being serious, or merely protecting himself for posterity.• Not only would that further damage his image for posterity.• It so happens that Parrhasios composed his own review for posterity, namely the epitaph inscribed on his tombstone.• If you want your hand written words of wisdom saved for posterity use quality paper and permanent ink.• Perhaps she simply wanted to hear herself perform, unless of course she hoped to leave posterity an example of her playing.• Such a pleasure I hope is before us and our posterity under the influence of the new government...• One can imagine them forthrightly shaking hands and congratulating and thanking each other, but the words are lost to posterity.preserve/record/keep etc something for posterity• This wise precaution preserved the Garden for posterity.• All V-Discs were to be destroyed after the war, but the Smithsonian kept a set for posterity, thankfully.
随便看	somebody is a fast worker somebody is all wet somebody is at your (complete) disposal somebody is cool with something somebody is done (with something) somebody is golden somebody is helping the police with their enquiries somebody is jamming somebody is just fooling somebody is no spring chicken somebody is not getting any younger somebody is not long for this world somebody is not short of something somebody is not shy about (doing) something somebody is not too swift somebody is old enough to be his/her/your mother/father somebody is old enough to know better somebody is only human somebody is said to be something/do something somebody is up to their (old) tricks somebody knows best somebody may be pardoned for doing something somebody need never do something somebody new/different/good etc somebody only has himself/herself to blame