heir
/ˈɛɚ/ 名词 C1中文： 储、继承人、继承者
- Someone who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another. · My brother is the heir to our childhood house and yet has no interest in it.
- One who inherits, or has been designated to inherit, a hereditary title or office. · As the heir to the British throne, the Prince of Wales is a very public figure.
- A successor in a role, representing continuity with the predecessor.
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Bennet’s property consisted almost entirely in an estate of two thousand a year, which, unfortunately for his daughters, was entailed, in default of heirs male, on a distant relation; and their mother’s fortune, though ample for her situation in life, could but ill supply the deficiency of his.
Holmes: that so far as we know, none of the papers were removed, and that the prisoner is the one man in the world who had no reason for removing them, since he was heir-at-law, and would come into them in any case.”
But it is evident to me that the logical way to approach the case is to begin by trying to throw some light upon the first incident—the curious will, so suddenly made, and to so unexpected an heir.
“Yes, he was his heir, and the old boy is nearly eighty—cram full of gout, too.
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