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Legacy Money Property Leaves N Count 可数名词 英 Leɡəsi] 美

英语单词 legacy
英美音标 英 ['leɡəsi] 美 ['leɡəsi]
中文释义 n.遗赠物;先人或过去遗留下来的东西
adj.[计算机]旧系统的
英语例句 (1) These are the cultural legacies of the Renaissance.
中文例句 (1) 这些是文艺复兴时期的文化遗产。
vocabulary简明 Use the word, legacy, for something handed down from one generation to the next. A retiring company president might leave a legacy of honesty and integrity.
vocabulary扩展 Legacy comes from the Latin verb, legare "to appoint by a last will, send as an ambassador." Originally, the noun meant "ambassador" or "envoy" but soon shifted to mean the money and property a person leaves behind in his will. Many university scholarships are funded by the legacies of former students. In recent usage, political leaders are said to be concerned with their legacies, the historically significant achievements of their tenure in office.
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[N-COUNT 可数名词]遗产;遗赠 A legacy is money or property which someone leaves to you when they die.
  • You could make a real difference to someone's life by leaving them a generous legacy.

    慷慨留下您的遗产,改写他人的人生。

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[N-COUNT 可数名词](事件或历史的)遗留问题,后遗症 A legacy of an event or period of history is something which is a direct result of it and which continues to exist after it is over.
  [with supp]
  • ...a programme to overcome the legacy of inequality and injustice created by Apartheid...

    旨在消除种族隔离政策所遗留的不平等与不公正问题的项目

  • The old system has left a mixed legacy.

    旧制度留下的遗产有好有坏。

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