词汇释义
scion UK /ˈsaɪ.ən/ US /ˈsaɪ.ən/TEM8 GRE
noun, A scion of a rich or famous family is one of its younger or more recent members.(名门望族的)年轻子弟，小少爷
外刊例句
1. 'The response that we want them to read with care is nigh, for we shall write it, God willing, in a language which they understand.' Another possible perpetrator was Osama bin Laden, the exiled scion of an enormously wealthy Saudi merchant family.(The Guardian)
2. Now he's Tory leader in the Lords the scion of the great Cecil political dynasty is in his element, while Ancram, trained as an advocate, likes the cut and thrust of electoral politics.(The Guardian)
3. They worried that Mr Martinelli was stealthily trying to keep his hands on the levers of power, especially after his wife was chosen as Mr Arias's running-mate.Mr Varela, the scion of a rum dynasty, also campaigned on a pledge to clean up politics.(The Economist)
4. Sanjay Gandhi, a thuggish scion of the ruling dynasty, organised vasectomy camps near Delhi one doctor boasted he could perform 40 sterilisations an hour.In the 1990s, though, economic liberalisers evoked the experiences of East Asia and the demographic dividend it benefited from when previously high fertility rates began to decline.(The Economist)
5. Rahul Gandhi is the 43-year-old scion of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty that has dominated the ruling Congress party for most of a century.(The Economist)
6. Wallenberg was a Swedish diplomat, and a scion of a powerful banking family, who saved thousands of Hungarian Jews during the war by issuing them with Swedish papers, placing them under Swedish protection, and intervening at deportation and execution sites.(The Economist)
7. A new exhibition at the Hungarian National Museum in downtown Budapest traces his life, from his childhood as a scion of the powerful and wealthy Wallenberg banking family to his disappearance.(The Economist)
8. Some analysts believe that, as the scion of an illustrious political family, Mr Abe lacks the guile and force required to face down the traditionalist LDP, which, in the words of one of its parliamentary members, "doesn't understand the first arrow [monetary easing], loves the second [government spending] and hates the third [reform]."To be fair, Mr Abe has been bold in some areas.(The Economist)
9. It is enlivened by feuds and fallouts, with characters ranging from the reclusive Mr Choo to her "sadist" mother, her ex-husband (Matthew Mellon, scion of a banking family), her accountant, trust manager, private-equity partners and a fair few more.(The Economist)
10. Now Ko Wen-je (pictured), an eminent surgeon who is without political experience and is running as an independent, is polling higher than Sean Lien, a scion of one of the KMT's richest political families. The KMT chose Mr Lien as its candidate through a ballot of its members in the capital.(The Economist)
11. He caused a stir mostly because it is so rare to hear the scion of the Gandhi family say anything that is not a trite generalisation.Mr Gandhi's welcome action has awkward consequences for Congress.(The Economist)
12. For the record, Rahul Gandhi, Congress's leader and scion of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty also tries, but fails hopelessly, in his bid to be seen as an outsider.(The Economist)
13. Among the early, intriguing, rumours: the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is leading in a clutch of seats in Punjab Rahul Gandhii, the scion of the ruling Congress party, is said to be trailing in his own constituency in Amethi.(The Economist)
14. Sonia Gandhi, president of India's ruling Congress party, is the widow of Rajiv, a former prime minister and scion of the Gandhi dynasty founded by Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first prime minister, which descended through his daughter, Indira.(The Economist)
词汇搭配
perfect, virtual, royal scion
词汇来源
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.
近义词
descendant, offspring, successor
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