被交到你手上的東西（名詞）
名詞的兩個用法差在「傳下來的是什麼」：一邊是文化和建築，一邊是血緣本身。
cultural legacy · noun · C2
The customs, beliefs, buildings, and art passed down over many years that belong to a family, country, or group.
文化遺產／傳統
核心畫面
A useful way to see this word is as everything that arrived in your hands before you were old enough to choose it — old buildings, songs, festivals, recipes, the languages spoken at your grandparents' table. Nobody bought it and nobody can take credit for it; it was handed over, and the people holding it now are expected to hand it on again. That is why heritage feels different from history: history is what happened, heritage is the part of it that is still in your hands.
可以想成：在你還來不及選擇之前，就已經被放進你手裡的那些東西——老建築、老歌、節慶、家裡的菜、外公外婆餐桌上講的那種…更多收起
可以想成：在你還來不及選擇之前，就已經被放進你手裡的那些東西——老建築、老歌、節慶、家裡的菜、外公外婆餐桌上講的那種話。沒有人買下它，也沒有人能把功勞攬在自己身上；它是被交下來的，而現在拿著的人，之後也要再交出去。這也是 heritage 跟 history 感覺不一樣的地方：history 是發生過的事，heritage 是那些事裡還留在你手上的部分。Two branches
老一輩留下來的老品種（形容詞）
把「代代相傳」搬到田裡：這些種子也是一路傳下來、沒被新品種取代的那一批，所以名詞的 heritage 直接被拿來當形容詞用。
heirloom variety · adjective · C2
Used to describe a kind of plant or vegetable that was grown long ago and is now rare or unusual.
傳統老品種
原始詞典資料5 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。
Heritagename
- 1
A surname.
heritagenoun/ˈhɛɹ.ɪ.tɪd͡ʒ/
- 1
An inheritance; property that may be inherited.
- Now unſpeakable happy are all thoſe that have ſuch an heritage: can we thinke they will part with it? No verily, […] they will not part with ſuch an inheritance as Chriſt is, rich, fat, alwayes fruitfull, and never decaying.
- 2
A tradition; a practice or set of values that is passed down from preceding generations through families or through institutional memory.
- In fact it was a multifarious agglomerate of many little countries, gathered by marriage, heritage and luck, in the course of centuries, and now united in the hand of this Duke Wilhelm.
- The first is that learning, continuous learning, is an intrinsic part of the American tradition. In some ways it constitutes the core of our social heritage, and no doubt accounts for the tremendous organizational and productive achievements which have taken place in this country. However, it is possible to move away from, even to lose one's heritage.
- 3
A birthright; the status acquired by birth, especially of but not exclusive to the firstborn.
- 4
Having a certain background, such as growing up with a second language.
- a heritage speaker; a heritage language
- The university requires heritage Spanish students to enroll in a specially designed Spanish program not available to non-heritage students.
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。