Legacy

(n.) A gift of property by will, esp. of money or personal property; a bequest. Also Fig.; as, a legacy of dishonor or disease.

(n.) A business with which one is intrusted by another; a commission; -- obsolete, except in the phrases last legacy, dying legacy, and the like.

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• And she is very poor--you know Mrs. Peniston cut her off with a small legacy, after giving her to understand that she was to have everything. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• But Mr. Bruff reminded me that somebody must put my cousin's legacy into my cousin's hands--and that I might as well do it as anybody else. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• I need not narrate in detail the further struggles I had, and arguments I used, to get matters regarding the legacy settled as I wished. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Even dear Mr. Godfrey partakes of the fallen nature which we all inherit from Adam--it is a very small share of our human legacy, but, alas! 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Was the legacy of the Moonstone a proof that she had treated her brother with cruel injustice? 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Provided he had made no will that can come into force, leaving a legacy to Mrs General, I am contented. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• My brother would have given up the legacy, and joyful, to escape more costs. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• The eighteenth century, keenly curious and ceaselessly active in this fascinating field of investigation, had not, after all, left much of a legacy in either principles or appliances. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• A valuable legacy indeed! 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• That legacy (as the event has proved) led him to his death. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• You show such an intimate acquaintance with my affairs that I suppose you mean--till my aunt's legacy is paid? 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• What though you have found no treasure, nor has any rich relation left you a legacy? 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• After my mother's death, all was to come to me except a legacy of three hundred pounds that I was then to pay my brother. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• The ten thousand pounds was a legacy left to my excellent wife by the late Mr. Fairlie. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• I mean to GIVE you your little legacy, my dear, with my own hand. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Accident and disease, however, are the inseparable concomitants of human existence, and suffering and pain the ineffaceable legacies of mortality. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• I should be all the better pleased if he'd left lots of small legacies. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Testamentary donations, or legacies to collaterals, are subject to the like duties. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Bowls and Firkin likewise received their legacies and their dismissals, and married and set up a lodging-house, according to the custom of their kind. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Did she think that only the payment of the legacies had been delayed? 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• But Miss Farish could not pause over the legacies; she broke into a larger indignation. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• If I inherit, I shall have to be careful of my figure, she mused, while the lawyer droned on through a labyrinth of legacies. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• He survived his uncle no longer; and ten thousand pounds, including the late legacies, was all that remained for his widow and daughters. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• I asked Joe whether he had heard if any of the other relations had any legacies? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.

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