He claims to be descended from a Spanish prince.

他声称是一位西班牙王子的后裔。

Anna is descended from pioneers who settled in Colorado in 1898.

安娜是1898年在科罗拉多州定居的先驱们的后裔。

Since they believe themselves to be descended from that ancestor, it would be like eating that ancestor or eating themselves.

因为他们相信自己是那个祖先的后裔，这就像吃那个祖先或吃自己一样。

This is not because God created them to poke fun at us; it is because humans and chimps are descended from the same relatively recent primitive ape.

这并不是因为上帝创造它们来嘲笑我们；而是因为人类和黑猩猩都是同一个比较近期的原始猿人的后裔。

She descended the stairs slowly.

她缓慢地走下楼梯。

Calm descended on the crowd.

人群平静下来。

A mood of melancholy descended on us.

一种悲伤的情绪袭上我们的心头。

A hush descended over the waiting crowd.

等候着的人群变得鸦雀无声。

They descended to the level of personal insults.

他们竟卑鄙到进行人身侮辱的地步。

Hundreds of football fans descended on the city.

数百名足球迷蜂拥入城。

The path descended the hill in a series of zigzags.

小路呈连续的之字形顺着山坡蜿蜒而下。

The same heavy, brooding silence descended on them.

同样沉重、阴森的寂静笼罩着他们。

He was ultimately overthrown and the country descended into chaos.

他最终被推翻，国家陷入了混乱。

By the end of his life, Presley's vocals often descended close to self-parody.

在人生的最后阶段，猫王普雷斯利的歌曲大不如前，通常几近于自我嘲弄。

He obediently disappeared as he descended the ladder.

他顺从地爬下梯子离开了。

He stooped and passed under; the narrow way descended gradually.

他弯下腰，从下面走过；那条狭窄的路逐渐向下延伸。

Tom went first, cutting rude steps in the clay hill as he descended.

汤姆走在前面，一边往下走，一边做一些粗糙的脚蹬。

Whales are descended not from hippos but from that distant wolf-like creatures.

鲸鱼不是河马的后代，而是来自古老的类似狼的生物。

There aren't any mastodons left, but there are elephants, which descended from mastodons.

现在已经没有乳齿象了，但是有大象的存在；它们是乳齿象的后代。

His head nodded, and little by little his chin descended and touched the enemy, who seized it.

他点了点头，下巴一点一点地垂下去，碰到了对手就被对手抓住了。

Before Europeans arrived, the Rapanui had descended into civil war and cannibalism, he maintains.

他坚持认为，在欧洲人到来之前，拉帕努伊人已经陷入内战和自相残杀。

He rose and descended river-wards once more; then changed his mind and sought the side of the dusty lane.

他又站起来，向下朝水边走去；然后他改变了主意，走到尘土飞扬的小路的一边。

Thankfully I descended from the red-hot inside of the cab and strolled down to where the road dipped into the next valley.

谢天谢地，我从闷热的车内下来，漫步到下一个山谷的尽头。

All Y chromosomes in existence today are descended from a single ancestor's who is thought to have lived about 140,000 years ago.

现在存在的所有 Y 染色体都来自于一个被认为生活在大约14万年前的同一祖先。

Some groups that had descended from the same parent population were no longer reproductively compatible—they had evolved into separate species.

一些由同一亲本群体进化而来的群体在繁殖上不再相容——他们进化成了不同的物种。

Biologists have long maintained that two groups of pinnipeds, sea lions and walruses, are descended from response to similar environmental pressures.

生物学家们长期认为，两类鳍脚亚目动物，即海狮和海象，都是从一种陆地上的类似于熊的动物繁衍而来的。

They seem all to be descended from the same bland and adorable ancestor, a wide-eyed, thin-lipped soul with barely any nose and a mane of bouclé hair.

他们都像从一种温和的，可爱的祖先进化来的，这种动物眼睛大大的，嘴唇很薄，几乎没有鼻子，带着毛茸茸的绒毛。

It suggested that all living things were related, from the beetle to the lotus, and that everything descended ultimately from a single common ancestor.

它表明所有的生物都是相关的，从甲虫到莲花，所有的生物都是由一个共同的祖先进化而来。

Months after my trip to Egypt, I can relive the rush of emotion I felt and sense the hush that descended on the crammed Cairo museum's Tutankhamen gallery.

在埃及之行结束几个月后，我重新体会到了那种强烈的情感，感受到了弥漫在开罗博物馆图坦卡蒙画廊的寂静。