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单词 posterity
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posterity

noun
/pɒˈsterəti/
/pɑːˈsterəti/
[uncountable] (formal)
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  1. all the people who will live in the future
    • Their music has been preserved for posterity.
    • Posterity will remember him as a great man.
    • It remains to be seen how posterity will judge her actions.
    • The scene was captured for posterity by the camera of Lord Snowdon.
    Word Originlate Middle English: from Old French posterite, from Latin posteritas, from posterus ‘following’.
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