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A birthright is something you feel is yours because of the family, people, or country you were born into — land, money, a title, or, more loosely, a freedom or a way of life. In old stories, especially the Bible, it can mean the special claim of the first child (the story of selling his birthright is the famous one). Today people stretch it: they say clean air is our birthright, meaning we should have this just by belonging here. Used for real inheritance it sounds serious and a little old-fashioned; used for a moral claim it sounds rhetorical, the kind of sentence you hear in a speech.
與生俱來的權利；聖經故事裡常指長子繼承權
組成birth + right. Right here means a claim you are entitled to, not the opposite of left.
同家族的字
- copyrightthe right piece is the same idea: a legal claim that belongs to someone
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
birthrightnoun/ˈbɝθ.ɹaɪt/
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Something a person is entitled to due to the circumstances of their birth, such as an inheritance or citizenship.
- Freedom of speech is our birthright.
- Not only has suburban life separated the great concentrated masses of our people from their birthright of meadows, fields and woods; of Nature, in her untamed splendour and mystery, most of them have never had so much as a momentary glimpse.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。