Inheritance

(noun.) hereditary succession to a title or an office or property.

(noun.) any attribute or immaterial possession that is inherited from ancestors; 'my only inheritance was my mother's blessing'; 'the world's heritage of knowledge'.

(noun.) (genetics) attributes acquired via biological heredity from the parents.

(noun.) that which is inherited; a title or property or estate that passes by law to the heir on the death of the owner.

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• What a wrong, to cut off the girl from the family protection and inheritance only because she had chosen a man who was poor! 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• With regard to myself, this came almost by inheritance. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Ruined by a fatal inheritance, and restored through me! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Most of its motives are purely instinctive, and all the mental life that it has is the result of heredity (birth inheritance). 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Simply, the discovery of Oliver's parentage, and regaining for him the inheritance of which, if this story be true, he has been fraudulently deprived. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• They came into this inheritance of a previous civilization with the ideas and traditions of the woodlands still strong in their minds. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Let him bring them an Indian fortune: they would give him in return a young bride and a rich inheritance. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• I am very rich, and they want my inheritance--or very poor, and they are tired of supporting me. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• A great sum of money is waiting to be paid over to him as his inheritance; you are all henceforth very wealthy. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• In this sinister way I came into my inheritance. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• From the strong principle of inheritance, any selected variety will tend to propagate its new and modified form. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• The Colonel was busy arranging the affairs of the inheritance. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• The real affinities of all organic beings, in contradistinction to their adaptive resemblances, are due to inheritance or community of descent. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Miss Crawley, the rich aunt from whom he expected his immense inheritance, was dying; the Colonel must haste to her bedside. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Robert Jordan, wiping out the stew bowl with bread, explained how the income tax and inheritance tax worked. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• The town was also the chief capitalist; as a seller of annuities on lives and inheritances it was a banker and enjoyed unlimited credit. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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