scion
scion 英 [ˈsaɪən] 美 [ˈsaɪən]
n. [农学] 接穗；子孙
名词复数:scions
- Use the word scion when talking about a young member of a family that is known to be wealthy, powerful or otherwise important, such as a prince, heiress or the children of, say, the President.
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- n. [农学] 接穗；子孙
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1. Indeed, here’s a (I hope soon-to-be-legal) bet worth making: If marijuana is legalized, look for the scion of a marijuana plantation operation to be president within 50 years.
确实，这里有个值得打的赌（我希望赌博很快也会合法）：如果大麻合法了，50年内大麻种植园主的子孙有望成为州长。
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2. Wang, a party scion, was born in Poland, where his father was the Chinese ambassador.
王是党的高官的后裔，出生于波兰，其父时任驻波兰的中国大使。
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3. What explains the peculiar actions of the 63-year-old scion?
这位63岁贵族后裔的奇特行为应该如何解释？
- scion (n.) c. 1300, "a shoot or twig," especially one for grafting, from Old French sion, cion "descendant; shoot, twig; offspring" (12c., Modern French scion, Picard chion), of uncertain origin. OED rejects derivation from Old French scier "to saw." Perhaps a diminutive from Frankish *kid-, from Proto-Germanic *kidon-, from PIE *geie- "to sprout, split, open" (see chink (n.1)). Figurative use is attested from 1580s in English; meaning "an heir, a descendant" is from 1814, from the "family tree" image.
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