接下前人手上的東西
兩個意思都是同一條交接線，差別只在傳下來的是財產，還是位子與作風。
legal inheritor · noun · C2
The person who has the legal right to receive another person's property or title when that person dies.
繼承人
核心畫面
One way to picture it: someone stands next in line, and when the person ahead of them lets go — by dying or by down — what that person held passes into their hands. The heir is the one waiting at the other end of the handover.
一條隊伍裡站在下一位的人。前面那個人放手了——過世了，或退下來了——他手上的東西就順著這條線交到下一位手裡。heir…更多收起
一條隊伍裡站在下一位的人。前面那個人放手了——過世了，或退下來了——他手上的東西就順著這條線交到下一位手裡。heir 指的就是接住的那個人。注意這個字的重點不在「拿走」，而在「接續」：東西之所以到他手上，是因為某種既定的順序或關係，不是他去爭來的。另外提醒發音：h 不發音，聽起來跟 air 一樣。From the word’s history
From Latin hērēs ('heir'), through Anglo-Norman eir/heir into Middle English. The word came into English through Norman law-French, which is why it still sits so naturally in legal language.
來自拉丁文 hērēs（繼承人），經盎格魯-諾曼法語 eir/heir 進入中古英文。它是隨著諾曼人的法律語言進來的字，這也解釋了為什麼 heir 到今天讀起來還是帶著法律文件的味道——遺囑、爵位、王位這些場合最常見到它。
Wiktionary, 'heir' (Middle English heir ← Anglo-Norman eir/heir ← Latin hērēs)
One branch
原始詞典資料4 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。
heirnoun/ˈɛə̯/
- 1
Someone who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another.
- My brother is the heir to our childhood house and yet has no interest in it.
- I am my father's heir and only son.
- 2
One who inherits, or has been designated to inherit, a hereditary title or office.
- As the heir to the British throne, the Prince of Wales is a very public figure.
- Now, after the death of Queen Elizabeth II, William, 40, is the Prince of Wales and the heir to the British throne.
- 3
A successor in a role, representing continuity with the predecessor.
- And I his heir in misery alone.
- "I wish we were back in Tenth Street. But so many children came[…]and the Tenth Street house wasn't half big enough; and a dreadful speculative builder built this house and persuaded Austin to buy it. Oh, dear, and here we are among the rich and great; and the steel kings and copper kings and oil kings and their heirs and dauphins.[…]"
heirverb/ˈɛə̯/
- 1
To inherit.
- […] Leonard Houtz & John Myer to be executors to this my last will & testament & lastly my children shall heir equally, one as much as the other.
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。