inherit是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 继承, 经遗传而得(特性等)，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Lord Glenarvan did not forget that his wife was the daughter of a great traveler, and he thought it likely that she would inherit her father's predilections.
-- Another strange notion is, that in eating a dead enemy they consume his spiritual being, and so inherit his soul, his strength and his bravery, which they hold are specially lodged in the brain.
-- He took nothing away, wishing the guilty to inherit the riches of the innocent.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Supposing that anything happened to our young friend here you will forgive the unpleasant hypothesis! who would inherit the estate?'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And I all of us Prince S. and everybody, believed that he was to inherit a large fortune from this uncle.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He then gave chase to Xanthus and Thoon, the two sons of Phaenops, both of them very dear to him, for he was now worn out with age, and begat no more sons to inherit his possessions.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As the enraptured Ichabod fancied all this, and as he rolled his great green eyes over the fat meadow lands, the rich fields of wheat, of rye, of buckwheat, and Indian corn, and the orchards burdened with ruddy fruit, which surrounded the warm tenement of Van Tassel, his heart yearned after the damsel who was to inherit these domains, and his imagination expanded with the idea, how they might be readily turned into cash, and the money invested in immense tracts of wild land, and shingle palaces in the wilderness.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 308'It was Walker, my sweet pet,' replied Miss Mowcher, 'and hecame of a long line of Walkers, that I inherit all the Hookey estatesfrom.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So that, in case of my death, your children will inherit it."
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He did not inherit an established order and a living idea.
-- "They remind me of Jesus: 'The meek shall inherit the earth.'"
-- "And are they going to inherit the earth?"
-- "I don't want to inherit the earth," she said.
-- "I don't want to inherit anything."
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But the fact is, that being, as I am, to inherit this estate after the death of your honoured father (who, however, may live many years lon-ger), I could not satisfy myself without resolving to choose a wife from among his daughters, that the loss to them might be as little as possible, when the melancholy event takes place which, however, as I have already said, may not be for several years.
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