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someone who will receive money, property, or a title when another person dies 继承人 heir to : Hesketh was the heir to a grocery fortune. 赫斯基思是一家杂货店的继承人。
heir to the throne (=the next king or queen) 王位继承人 : Richard was now heir to the throne of the Angevin Empire. 理查德现在是安茹帝国的王位继承人。
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the next person to have a particular job or to continue someone's work or ideas (某个职位、某人的工作或思想的)继承者,后继者 heir to : the heirs to Mussolini's fascist regime 墨索里尼法西斯政权的后继者
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