inheritance
/ɪnˈhɛɹɪtəns/ 名词 C1中文： 继承、遗产、遗传
- The passing of title to an estate upon death.
- That which a person is entitled to inherit, by law or testament, such as the part of an estate (i.e., a portion).
- The act or mechanism of inheriting; the state of having inherited. · The Indo-European languages share various similarities as a result of their inheritance from a common ancestor.
- The biological attributes passed hereditarily from ancestors to their offspring.
- The mechanism whereby parts of a superclass are available to instances of its subclass.
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She was a very pretty little girl, with her mother’s black eyes and hair, and rosy cheeks, and the merry expression which was her inheritance from her father.
But Godfrey was the heir to this crabbed old nobleman, and it was quite certain that the news of his marriage would have been the end of his inheritance.
“Well, I seem to have come into an inheritance with a vengeance,” said he when the long narrative was finished.
Indeed, I expected it, for it is a family inheritance; both my father and grandfather died of it in a third attack.
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