上一代留下、還在用的（形容詞）
電腦圈把「上一代傳下來的」這層意思拿來當形容詞用：這套系統是公司早年留下的，沒人現在會這樣蓋，但它還在跑，你也只能接手照顧它。
outdated computer system · adjective · C2
Describing a computer system or software that people still use even though newer ones exist.
舊有的／沿用的
核心畫面
One way to picture legacy: a person is gone, but something they handed over is still sitting in your hands. It starts with money or a house written into a will, and every other use keeps that same shape — you did not choose it, an earlier time passed it down to you, and you are the one living with it now.
可以想成 legacy 是「人走了，東西還在你手上」：最原始的畫面比較像遺囑上寫著留給誰的錢或房子。後面的每一種用法…更多收起
可以想成 legacy 是「人走了，東西還在你手上」：最原始的畫面比較像遺囑上寫著留給誰的錢或房子。後面的每一種用法都保留這個形狀——不是你自己挑的，是上一個時代交到你手裡的，而現在得跟它一起生活的人是你。From the picture
Also in this word
inheritance · noun · C2
Money or things that someone gives you after they die.
遺產
lasting effect · noun · C2
Something that still exists now because of events or people from an earlier time.
遺留／影響
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。
legacynoun/ˈlɛɡəsi/
- 1
lawMoney or property bequeathed to someone in a will.
- 2
Something inherited from a predecessor or the past.
- John Muir left as his legacy an enduring spirit of respect for the environment.
- During the first year or so of British Railways, some of the simpler and more obvious inter-regional transfers of outlying sections were effected, such as those of the London, Tilbury & Southend Railway from the London Midland Region to the Eastern Region; the South Wales lines of the former L.M.S.R. to the Western Region; the Carlisle-Silloth branch (an L.N.E.R. legacy of a North British "border raid") to the London Midland, and so on.
- 3
educationThe descendant of an alumnus, given preference in academic admissions.
- Because she was a legacy, her mother's sorority rushed her.
legacyadj/ˈlɛɡəsi/
- 1
computingengineeringmathematicsLeft over from the past; old and no longer current.
- They have no idea what occurs in the network or its topology, and all of the services remain dependent on it — a very legacy approach to creating services in the optical network.
- However, pre-relational DBMS are legacy.
- 2
Belonging to a class of boardgame where permanent changes are made to game elements such as the board, cards and rules over multiple play sessions.
- Risk Legacy, in 2011, was the first game to give visibility to the idea of progressive and irreversible discovery in the board gaming hobby, 2 and it did so by applying it to the well-known game Risk.
- Over the course of the years that Daviau worked on Seafall, the first legacy game that was not based on a previously existing product, the mechanic became one of the hotter things in game design
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。