| 釋義 |
heirn.
1. child小孩，子孫。
△Oth.2.1.136: “She never yetwas foolish that was fair,/ For even her folly helpedher to an heir.”長得美的女人決不會愚蠢，她的愚蠢也會幫她養(yǎng)兒孫。
2. heiress,female successor to a possession女繼承人。
△3H.VI.4.1.47:“For this one speech Lord Hastingswell deserves / To have the heir (i.e. the wealthydaughter) of the Lord Hungerford.” (In fact it wasHastin gs’ son Edward who married daughter of LordHungerford.)憑這一番話，海司丁斯大人就完全應(yīng)該得到亨格福勛爵的有錢女兒為妻。
Phrases:
heir apparent: ?one by law acknowledged to be heir合法繼承人。
△2H. vi.
1.1.152(151):“Consider,lords,he is the next of blood / And heir apparent to theEnglish crown.”想想吧，諸位，他的血統(tǒng)是王室嫡系近親，是英國王位的合法繼承人。
?heir to the throne (with a playon“here apparent”) 王位繼承人。
△1H .IV.1.2. 64(57):“Yea,and so used it that,were it not here ap-parent(= manifest,obvious) that thou art heir ap-parent-” i.e.Were you not Prince of Wales,you would get no more credit. (But Falstaff dares not ex-press the thought in full.)是呀，你到處使用你的信用，假如你不是明明顯顯的王位繼承人的話——(按：福斯塔夫不敢把話說完。)
heir general: lawful heir by descent,i.e. lawful heirwhether through male or female line根據(jù)血統(tǒng)世系的合法繼承人，（指）不管通過男性族系或女性族系的合法繼承人。
△H.V.1.2.65: “King Pepin,which deposedChilderic,/ Did,as heir general,being descendedOf Blithild,which was daughter to king Clothair,Make claim and title to the crown of France.”那廢黜了喜爾德利克的丕平王，本是國王克羅退爾的女兒白莉蒂爾的后裔，卻仍以合法繼承人的身份，對法蘭西的王冠提出了要求權(quán)利。heir of life: one who survives,survivor活下來的人，生者。
△2H.IV.4.1.199(197):“For he hath found toend one doubt by death /Revives two greater in theheirs of life；”因為他發(fā)現(xiàn)了殺死一個可疑的敵人就會在活著的人當(dāng)中激起兩個更大的對頭。 heir[h??]n.繼承人
‖ heir apparent有確定繼承權(quán)的人，王位繼承人
heir at law法定繼承人
heir presumptive假定繼承人
heirs of the body直系繼承人
heirdom n.繼承權(quán)，繼承的財產(chǎn)
heirship n.繼承權(quán)
heiress[??eris]n. 女繼承人
heirless[???lis]adj.無繼承人的，無后嗣的
heirloom n.傳家寶 |