It has around 800 members and it's made up mostly of life peers, and also includes hereditary peers and bishops.

上议院大约有800名议员，绝大多数都是终身贵族，同时也包括世袭贵族和区主教。

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阶层员。

In none of the English colonies is there any hereditary nobility.

在英国殖民地中， 没有一个是世袭贵族。

The councils, which, in the colony legislatures, correspond to the house of lords in Great Britain, are not composed of a hereditary nobility.

议会，在殖民地立法构中，相当于英国上议院，不是由世袭贵族组。

In the first place, the House of Lords was composed mainly of hereditary nobles whose number the king could increase by the appointment of his favorites, as of old.

首先，上议院主要由世袭贵族组，常一样，国王可以通过任命他宠臣来增加他们人数。

Either way, you weren’t allowed to have kids, which prevented the whole hereditary nobles problem, and also ensured that the Ottoman government would contain quite a lot of Eunuchs.

无论哪种方式， 你都不被允许生孩子，这避免了整个世袭贵族问题， 也确保了奥斯曼政府将包含相当多太监。

He was also a member of the Society of Cincinnati, an organisation dedicated to the welfare of veteran soldiers which critics argued was the breeding ground for a hereditary military aristocracy.

他还是辛辛那提协会员，该协会致力于为退伍军人提供福利， 批评者认为该组织是世袭军事贵族滋生地。

The hereditary nobility of his blood provided a rigid code which would not permit him to conceive of his work in terms of the German people rather than in terms of Prussian kings.

他世袭贵族血统提供了一个严格准则，不允许他根据德国人民而不是普鲁士国王来构想他作品。

The tragedy is enacted with as continual a repetition as that of a popular drama on a holiday, and, nevertheless, is felt as deeply, perhaps, as when an hereditary noble sinks below his order.

悲剧不断重复上演，就节日里流行戏剧一样，尽管如此，人们对它感受仍然很深，也许就一个世袭贵族在他命令下堕落一样。

A society in which only members of a hereditary aristocracy, a military junta, or a ruling political party can make major decisions is a society which has thrown away much of the knowledge, insights, and talents of most of its own people.

一个只有世袭贵族、军政府或执政政党员才能做出重大决定社会，是一个抛弃了大多数本国人民知识、见解和才能社会。