传宗接代 meaning in English
have a son to carry on his family name; bear one's husband children and so continue the family line; carry on the family line; continue [carry on] the ancestral line; inherit one's family tradition and be the authentic heir to sb.; (have a son) to continue one's family line
Examples
- Only fancy if he had a dear little boy to carry the family on !
如果他有个男孩子,能够传宗接代就好了。 - Outside the regenerative and ennobling pale of matrimony, he used her body .
他在有传宗接代意义的庄严的婚姻关系以外,蹂躏了她。 - They had a secret pride in the hope of engrafting so rare a scion on the stock of their own nation .
他们在心中暗自庆幸能有这位绝代佳人为自己的部族传宗接代。 - Now being such a proud gentleman, he wished above all to have a son who would bear his name when he was dead and inherit all his land .
绅士很高傲,他特别希望有个儿子,好传宗接代,以便他死后能继承他的全部土地。 - Give me one . gotta protect the family jewels
给我一个得保护传宗接代的宝贝