Their mother, Marie Jillisch, was of Irish descent, born in Scotland.(他们的母亲玛丽·姬丽施是爱尔兰后裔，出生在苏格兰。)
But in the case of balloons, the descent sometimes comes sooner than expected.(但是就热气球来说，有时候它下降时比预想要来的快。)
It is clearly modeled on Odysseus' descent to Hades in the Odyssey.(这很明显是模仿奥德修斯降入地狱，《奥德赛》书中的故事。)
They were no longer a series of small bands but lived in a large community with more elaborate social organization, probably grouped into clans of people of common descent.(他们不再是一些小群体，而是居住在一个大型的社会中，有更加复杂精细的社会组织，可能是以拥有共同的祖先的氏族来划分群体。)
So they were Greek speaking, maybe people of Greek descent.(所以他们说希腊语，很多人还是希腊后裔。)
Britain has always been the principal source—ninety percent of Australians are of British descent, and Britain has provided one million migrants since the Second World War.(英国一直是澳大利亚移民的主要来源国——90%的澳大利亚人是英国后裔，自二战以来，英国已经提供了100万移民。)
I'm Canadian of East Indian descent.(我是东印度裔加拿大人。)
Many years later, he published his other great work, The Descent of Man.(许多年后，他出版了另一部名著《人类的演化》。)
Some worry about a descent to Italian standards.(有些人担心媒体会下降到意大利水平上去。)
The whole of this itinerary resembled a descent of black steps.(他走的这整条路线好象是一条在夜间摸黑下山的梯级。)
