descend from

基本解釋

These lions are especially vulnerable to disease because they descend from as few as a dozen individuals.
這些獅子特別容易感染疾病，因?yàn)樗鼈兌际菑哪莾H有的十來只獅子遺傳下來的。
Millions of people all over the world tuned in to watch Princess Diana descend from her carriage and enter church with her 25-foot antique lace and silk taffeta train.
全世界數(shù)百萬人從電視上看著戴安娜王妃走下車，身穿一襲 25英尺長(zhǎng)、帶有古典韻味的蕾絲塔夫綢拖地長(zhǎng)裙步入教堂。
The weight of the evidence is now suggesting that not only did birds not descend from dinosaurs, Ruben said, but that some species now believed to be dinosaurs may have descended from birds.
現(xiàn)在這些證據(jù)的效力不僅顯示鳥類不是起源于恐龍，魯本說，而且現(xiàn)在被認(rèn)定是恐龍的一些物種可能起源于鳥類。

The Under-20 World Cup draws only a fraction of the fans that the full World Cup will bring to South Africa, when hordes of supporters from 32 nations will descend on the southern end of the continent.
And he tells him to descend from the mountain.
然后讓他下了山。
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Or whenever a party occurs on Facebook, a lone, half-deflated balloon could descend from the ceiling.
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Those individuals are us, and we're that way precisely because of the enterprising people we happily descend from.
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