傳到手上的東西
三個意思都是「上一輩傳下來的東西」，差別在於傳下來的是財產、是身體裡的東西，還是一整個文化累積的東西。
money/property inherited · noun · C2
Money, land, a house, or other things that come to you after someone in your family has died.
遺產
核心畫面
One way to picture it: something is handed down the line to you from those who came before. You did not earn it or choose it — it arrives because of who you are and where you come from.
有東西沿著一條線，從前面的人手上傳到你手上。關鍵不在那個東西是什麼，而在「它怎麼來的」——不是你賺來的，不是你挑的，…更多收起
有東西沿著一條線，從前面的人手上傳到你手上。關鍵不在那個東西是什麼，而在「它怎麼來的」——不是你賺來的，不是你挑的，是因為你站在這條線上，它就到了你這裡。這條線可以是家族的血脈，也可以是一個文化、一個行業、一個民族的時間軸；傳下來的可以是一棟房子、一雙眼睛的顏色，也可以是一套做事的方法。From the word’s history
From Middle English enheritaunce, from Old French enheriter, ultimately from Latin hērēs (heir) — the one who takes over what a person leaves behind. The core is the handing-down itself.
經中古英文 enheritaunce、古法文 enheriter，往上追到拉丁文 hērēs「繼承人」——就是接手死者留下之物的那個人。字根講的是「接手」這個動作，而現代三個用法的差別只在於：接手的東西是財物、是身體特徵，還是整個時代留下的東西。
payload origin note (Middle English enheritaunce ← Anglo-Norman/Old French enheritaunce ← enheriter; inherit + -ance)
One branch
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。
inheritancenoun/ɪnˈhɛɹɪtəns/
- 1
The passing of title to an estate upon death.
- 2
That which a person is entitled to inherit, by law or testament, such as the part of an estate (i.e., a portion).
- 3
biologyhuman-scienceslinguisticsThe act or mechanism of inheriting; the state of having inherited.
- The Indo-European languages share various similarities as a result of their inheritance from a common ancestor.
- 4
biologynatural-sciencesThe biological attributes passed hereditarily from ancestors to their offspring.
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computingengineeringmathematicsThe mechanism whereby parts of a superclass are available to instances of its subclass.
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。