- 1女繼承人
An heiress is a woman who will receive, or has already received, a lot of money or property when an older member of her family dies. The money is not ; it is what the family already owns — a house, land, a company, a fortune. Newspapers like the word because it paints a picture: a young heiress, a hotel heiress, an oil heiress. Though actually, you can call someone an heiress before anyone has died; it can mean she is the one who is going to get it, not only that she already has it. The male (or ) word is heir; heiress marks the person as a woman. In careful modern English, heir can be anyone, but heiress is still the word people reach for when they want to say 'this rich young woman'. It is a little old-fashioned and a little glamorous — more at home in news and stories than in everyday talk about ordinary families.
組成heir (the person who will get the money or land) + -ess (the old ending that marks 'this one is a woman'). The -ess ending came into English from French -esse, and further back from Latin and Greek.
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- heirheiress is heir plus the feminine ending -ess
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
heiressnoun/ɛəˈɹɛs/
- 1
A woman who has a right of inheritance or who stands to inherit.
- "Do you know, Julia, that Charles has taken some wild-goose fancy into his head about marrying?" "Why, what heiress have you picked up?" asked his sister. "I am sure that I am very glad of it, though I cannot form a guess who it is. I never knew a season so unprofitable in that respect as the present."
- 2
A woman who has received an inheritance.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。