heiress是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 女继承人，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。
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As to the books and furniture of the schoolhouse, they belonged to the community, excepting Cotton Mather's History of Witchcraft, a New England Almanac, and book of dreams and fortune-telling; in which last was a sheet of foolscap much scribbled and blotted in several fruitless at-tempts to make a copy of verses in honor of the heiress of Van Tassel.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'She has only one daughter, the heiress of Rosings, and of very extensive property.'
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He only wanted to aggrandise and enrich himself; and if Miss Woodhouse of Hartfield, the heiress of thirty thousand pounds, were not quite so easily obtained as he had fancied, he would soon try for Miss Somebody else with twenty, or with ten.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "My great-uncle, the Chevalier de Rastignac, married the heiress of the Marcillac family.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Or, that she might harness the proprieties to the carriage of some rich young heiress or widow, and become at once the driver and guard of such vehicle through the social mazes.
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