Legacy
['legəsɪ] or ['lɛgəsi]
解釋/意思:
(n.) A gift of property by will, esp. of money or personal property; a bequest. Also Fig.; as, a legacy of dishonor or disease.
(n.) A business with which one is intrusted by another; a commission; -- obsolete, except in the phrases last legacy, dying legacy, and the like.
丹尼斯校對
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Bequest, devise, gift by will.
本校對
解釋/意思:
n. that which is left to one by will: a bequest of personal property.—ns. Leg′acy-hunt′er one who hunts after legacies by courting those likely to leave them; Leg′atary a legatee; Legatee′ one to whom a legacy is bequeathed.—Legacy duty a duty levied on legacies varying according to degree of relationship and reaching its maximum where the legatee is not related to the testator.—Cumulative or Substitutional legacy a second legacy given to the same person either in addition to or in place of the first; Demonstrative legacy a general legacy but with a particular fund named from which it is to be satisfied; General legacy a sum of money payable out of the assets generally; Residuary legatee the person to whom the remainder of the property is left after all claims are discharged; Specific legacy a legacy of a definite thing as jewels pictures a sum of stock in the Funds &c.
錄入:露西
娱乐性解釋/意思：
n. A gift from one who is legging it out of this vale of tears.
卡莱尔編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- And she is very poor--you know Mrs. Peniston cut her off with a small legacy, after giving her to understand that she was to have everything. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- But Mr. Bruff reminded me that somebody must put my cousin's legacy into my cousin's hands--and that I might as well do it as anybody else. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- I need not narrate in detail the further struggles I had, and arguments I used, to get matters regarding the legacy settled as I wished. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Even dear Mr. Godfrey partakes of the fallen nature which we all inherit from Adam--it is a very small share of our human legacy, but, alas! 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Was the legacy of the Moonstone a proof that she had treated her brother with cruel injustice? 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Provided he had made no will that can come into force, leaving a legacy to Mrs General, I am contented. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- My brother would have given up the legacy, and joyful, to escape more costs. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- The eighteenth century, keenly curious and ceaselessly active in this fascinating field of investigation, had not, after all, left much of a legacy in either principles or appliances. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- A valuable legacy indeed! 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- That legacy (as the event has proved) led him to his death. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- You show such an intimate acquaintance with my affairs that I suppose you mean--till my aunt's legacy is paid? 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- What though you have found no treasure, nor has any rich relation left you a legacy? 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- After my mother's death, all was to come to me except a legacy of three hundred pounds that I was then to pay my brother. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- The ten thousand pounds was a legacy left to my excellent wife by the late Mr. Fairlie. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- I mean to GIVE you your little legacy, my dear, with my own hand. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Accident and disease, however, are the inseparable concomitants of human existence, and suffering and pain the ineffaceable legacies of mortality. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- I should be all the better pleased if he'd left lots of small legacies. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Testamentary donations, or legacies to collaterals, are subject to the like duties. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Bowls and Firkin likewise received their legacies and their dismissals, and married and set up a lodging-house, according to the custom of their kind. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Did she think that only the payment of the legacies had been delayed? 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- But Miss Farish could not pause over the legacies; she broke into a larger indignation. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- If I inherit, I shall have to be careful of my figure, she mused, while the lawyer droned on through a labyrinth of legacies. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- He survived his uncle no longer; and ten thousand pounds, including the late legacies, was all that remained for his widow and daughters. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- I asked Joe whether he had heard if any of the other relations had any legacies? 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
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