heiress [ˈeres]

例句:

• He adopts his niece as his heiress.
  他指定他的侄女为继承人.
  
• From the start, doubts surrounded her claim to be the missing heiress.
  她自称是失踪的女继承人这件事从一开始就存在很多疑点.
  
• Byron has married an heiress.
  拜伦娶了个有遗产的女人.
  
• I shall set to work at the 'Heiress' ding-dong.
  来自M. R. Mitford
• Paula, Daisy's daughter, was...heiress to her enormous retailing empire.
  来自B. T. Bradford
• Her mother, Josephine, was an heiress to a Pennsylvania coal fortune.
  来自NEWYORKER