And such figures, striking though they are, understate the shift to an inheritocracy.

而这些数字虽然引人注目，却低估了社会向世袭制转变。

The problem is that the role is not hereditary, and there is no procedure for choosing the next one.

问题是，这不是世袭，也没有选择下一程序。

Firstly, unlike with most family businesses, the leadership is hereditary.

首先，与大多数家族企业不同，领导权是世袭。

Scotch thanes, in Scotland, members of a rank between ordinary freemen and hereditary nobles.

苏格兰领主，在苏格兰，是介于普通自由人和世袭贵族之间阶层成员。

We were lost without a king, and an hereditary king to boot.

我们没有国王就迷失了方向，而还是一世袭国王。

So all the Polynesians are chiefly societies, a hereditary chiefship.

因此，所有波利尼西亚社会都是以世袭酋长制为核心。

It's almost like the hereditary blood claim in this period.

这几乎就像是那时期世袭血统主张。

Eccentricity was so general as to become hereditary distinction.

怪癖是如此普遍， 以至于成为世袭。

From this point onwards, the Hua family became hereditary grandees of Song.

从此，华氏成为宋国世袭贵公子。

They also did not have the hereditary privileges allowed to the nobility.

他们也没有贵族所享有世袭特权。

Initially, these titles weren't actually hereditary.

最初，这些头衔实际上并不是世袭。

Their solution was a return to the ancient constitution with an hereditary head of state.

他们解决方案是回归拥有世袭国家元首古代宪法。

Usually it's a title that is inherited, so if your father was king you could become king.

通常这是一世袭头衔，因此如果你父亲是国王， 你也有可能成为国王。

Because it will revert to these invisible forms of prejudice that are always associated with nepotism and dynasty.

因为这会回归到那些常与裙带关系和世袭制度相伴隐形偏见形式。

Principalities are either hereditary, in which the family has been long established; or they are new.

君主国不是世袭就是新。在世袭君主国里，长期以来君主后裔就是那里君主。

But in Hawaii, as time went on, this hereditary pattern of chiefship got more and more elaborated, more stratified.

但在夏威夷， 随着时间推移， 这种世袭酋长制度变得越来越复杂，等级更加森严。

She concluded by telling him to mend his ways before he did irreparable damage to his hereditary alliances.

她最后告诉他要改过自新，以免对他世袭联盟造成不可挽回损害。

There is another type of Lord which doesn't pass down, and that is called a Life Peerage.

还有一种不能世袭勋爵，称为终身贵族。

But it's absolutely thrilling because we're still having debates about whether we should abolish the House of Lords' hereditary peers.

但这绝对令人兴奋，因为我们仍在争论是否应该废除上议院世袭贵族。

As you know, monarchies are hereditary, or run by bloodline, and as the king-in-waiting, Charles was expected to produce an heir.

正如你所知， 君主制是世袭，或者说是由血统决定， 作为候任国王，查尔斯被期望能有一继承人。