1. later generations
2. posterity; descendants
比如:
後人襲取這個故事，寫成了戲。
Later people adapted this story for the stage
他那松柏般高潔的品格很值得後人學習。
His noble lofty sentiments are worth his descendants' study
這位思想家的理論足以垂示後人。
The theory of this thinker is good enough to be passed down so as to inspire later generations