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世代相传

shì dài xiāng chuán

4-character word Traditional 世代相傳

What 世代相传 means

1. passed on from generation to generation (idiom); to hand down

The characters in 世代相传

• 世shìlife; age; generation
• 代dàito be a substitute for; to act on behalf of; to replace; to substitute; generation…
• 相xiāngeach other; one another; mutually
• 传chuánto pass on; to spread; to transmit

Example sentences

• 一只赛勒诺栖于岩石之上，你看，/ 那阴郁的女先知就这样嘎声道出她的末日预言。/「还有战争，拉俄墨冬两度背信的后裔！/ 你们带来的是战争，还偷杀了我们的牛群？/ 而你们还要将无辜的哈尔庇厄驱逐，/ 赶出她们古老、世代相传的领地？」
  One perched, Celaeno, on a rock, and lo, / thus croaked the dismal seer her prophecy of woe. / "War, too, Laomedon's twice-perjured race! / War do ye bring, our cattle stol'n and slain? / And unoffending Harpies would ye chase / forth from their old, hereditary reign?"