Birthright

(noun.) personal characteristics that are inherited at birth.

(noun.) a right or privilege that you are entitled to at birth; 'free public education is the birthright of every American child'.

(noun.) an inheritance coming by right of birth (especially by primogeniture).

整理:纳撒尼尔

• Birthright and habit must settle the business. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• And does it seem to me that I am about to deprive Harold Skimpole of his share in such possessions, which are his only birthright! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• But he who sold his birthright for a mess of pottage existed, and Judas Iscariot existed, and Castlereagh existed, and this man exists! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• Colours and beauties so far subdued were, at least, the birthright of all. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• When men at length awoke to claim their birthright of freedom, they invented the printing-press and rediscovered gunpowder, with which to destroy the tyranny of both priests and kings. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.

录入:斯科特