[每日] scion (n) 子孫
Word of the Day (Tuesday September 23, 2008)
scion \SY-uhn\, noun:
Pronunciation: http://0rz.tw/8f4LX
1. A detached shoot or twig of a plant used for grafting.
2. Hence, a descendant; an heir.
Convinced he was the scion of Louis Alexandre Lebris de Kerouac,
a noble Breton, he was off to do genealogical research in the
Paris libraries and then to locate his ancestor's hometown in
Brittany.
-- Ellis Amburn, Subterranean Kerouac
Sassoon, scion of a famously wealthy Jewish banking family, had
never needed to earn his living.
-- Philip Hoare, Oscar Wilde's Last Stand
Gates is the scion of an old, affluent Seattle family; Jobs is
the adopted son of a machinist in Northern California.
-- "Steve Jobs, Hesitant Co-Founder, Makes New Commitment to
Apple", New York Times, August 7, 1997
Scion derives from Old French cion, of Germanic origin.
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