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Inheritance Family Money Property Receive Death Left Passes

英语单词 inheritance
英美音标 英 [ɪn'herɪtəns] 美 [ɪn'herɪtəns]
中文释义 n.遗传;遗产;继承;继承物
英语例句 (1) He entered on his inheritance when he was 21.
(2) Her blue eyes were a paternal inheritance.
(3) On the maternal side his inheritance was a happy one.
(4) The inheritance kept them afloat for years.
(5) He renounced his claim to the inheritance.
(6) A dispute over an inheritance forty or fifty years ago led to a family feud which exists to this day.
(7) Don Fabrizio, Prince of Salina, sees his new rich neighbours snapping up parcels of land from destitute nobles, and knows that his own inheritance is going to ruin.
中文例句 (1) 他21岁时继承了财产。
(2) 她的蓝眼睛是她父亲遗传给她的。
(3) 他从母方接受的遗传是良好的。
(4) 遗产使他们好多年免于经济困难。
(5) 他声明放弃对遗产的要求。
(6) 四五十年前两家为继承财产发生纠葛结下的宿仇持续至今。
(7) 萨利纳亲王看到他那有钱的新邻居抢购穷困的贵族的土地,也明白了他自己的继承物将被损坏。
vocabulary简明 Any money or property you receive after the death of a friend or relative is an inheritance. Your grandmother might have left you a small inheritance, but she left the bulk of her estate to her Chihuahua, Killer.
vocabulary扩展 A title that passes with death is also called an inheritance. If the current monarch of Britain dies, the inheritance passes to the next in line for the throne, first to the oldest son. A trait that is passed from parent to child genetically is also referred to as an inheritance. The inheritance of red hair, for example, might be common in your family.
柯林斯解释
1
[N-VAR 可变名词]遗产;继承物 An inheritance is money or property which you receive from someone who has died.
  • She feared losing her inheritance to her stepmother.

    她担心她继承的遗产会被继母夺走。

2
[N-COUNT 可数名词]转接物;沿袭物 If you get something such as job, problem, or attitude from someone who used to have it, you can refer to this as an inheritance .
  [usu sing]
  • ...the situation that was Truman's inheritance as President.

    杜鲁门继任总统时面临的状况

3
[N-SING 单数名词]得自遗传的特征 Your inheritance is the particular characteristics or qualities which your family or ancestors had and which you are born with.
  [also no det]
  • Eye colour shows your genetic inheritance.

    眼睛的颜色显示你的基因遗传特征。

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