Offspring

(noun.) something that comes into existence as a result; 'industrialism prepared the way for acceptance of the French Revolution's various socialistic offspring'; 'this skyscraper is the solid materialization of his efforts'.

(noun.) the immediate descendants of a person; 'she was the mother of many offspring'; 'he died without issue'.

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• Independently of the question of fertility, the offspring of species and of varieties when crossed may be compared in several other respects. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Hence very few of the original species will have transmitted offspring to the fourteen-thousandth generation. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• The offspring nestled to the parent; that parent, feeling the endearment and hearing the appeal, gathered her closer still. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Unless favourable variations be inherited by some at least of the offspring, nothing can be effected by natural selection. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• He saw Satan, and Sin his daughter, and Death their horrible offspring. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Pure species have of course their organs of reproduction in a perfect condition, yet when intercrossed they produce either few or no offspring. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• At this period, the termination of an animal's love for its offspring,--the true affection of the human parent commences. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• I have myself recently bred a foal from a bay mare (offspring of a Turkoman horse and a Flemish mare) by a bay English race-horse. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• The attachment between them led to the ill-fated marriage, of which I was the offspring. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more, and so on. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• It was a brave conception; it was the offspring of a most ingenious brain. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Nor have these publications been all party pamphlets, the wretched offspring of falsehood and venality. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The effects on the offspring are either definite or in definite. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• The three _colour processes_ is the name given to the new offspring of the inventors which reproduces by the camera the natural colours of objects. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• And the time is not yet passed when we punish the offspring of illicit love, and visit vengeance unto the third and fourth generations. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.

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