descend from

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These lions are especially vulnerable to disease because they descend from as few as a dozen individuals.
这些狮子特别容易感染疾病，因为它们都是从那仅有的十来只狮子遗传下来的。
Millions of people all over the world tuned in to watch Princess Diana descend from her carriage and enter church with her 25-foot antique lace and silk taffeta train.
全世界数百万人从电视上看着戴安娜王妃走下车，身穿一袭 25英尺长、带有古典韵味的蕾丝塔夫绸拖地长裙步入教堂。
The weight of the evidence is now suggesting that not only did birds not descend from dinosaurs, Ruben said, but that some species now believed to be dinosaurs may have descended from birds.
现在这些证据的效力不仅显示鸟类不是起源于恐龙，鲁本说，而且现在被认定是恐龙的一些物种可能起源于鸟类。

The Under-20 World Cup draws only a fraction of the fans that the full World Cup will bring to South Africa, when hordes of supporters from 32 nations will descend on the southern end of the continent.
And he tells him to descend from the mountain.
然后让他下了山。
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Or whenever a party occurs on Facebook, a lone, half-deflated balloon could descend from the ceiling.
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Those individuals are us, and we're that way precisely because of the enterprising people we happily descend from.
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