posthumous

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  • adj.
    死后的
    遗腹的,死后出生的
    作者死后出版的

单词词源

posthumous 死后

来自拉丁语postumus,最后生的,老幺,来自post,在后,-um,最高级后缀,词源同maximum,minimum.后词义和拼写同时受humere(埋葬,入土,词源同humus)影响而俗化。

双语例句

1. It can take innumerable forms , from buffoonery to the pursuit of posthumous fame .
它可以有无数表现形式,从插科打挥到追求死后的名声。
2. I doubt , in any case , that he was alluding to philanthropy 's posthumous pardoning power .
不管怎样,我猜他是在暗示慈善行为在人死后的赦免力量。
3. Just hours after her family agreed to have her life support switched off , they changed their minds and asked doctors if they could harvest her eggs for posthumous reproduction .
可是在几个小时后,她的家人同意关掉对她生命的医疗支持,他们改变了主意,并询问医生是否可以摘取她的卵子用来遗腹繁殖。
4. There were at least two of these massive posthumous albums of notes : the other one that survives is the famous codex atlanticus in the ambrosian library in milan , full of his inventions and studies of mechanics and mathematics .
至少有两个他在死后出版的笔记专辑:另外一个幸存保存在意大利米兰的安波罗修图书,里面全是他的一些发明的研究和一些力学和数学的研究。

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