Only Ireland seems to buck the trend of becoming an inheritocracy: there, at least, bequests are modest and have not grown much in recent years.

似乎只有爱尔兰在反抗成为世袭社会的趋势：至少爱尔兰的遗产价值不多，近年来也没有增加多少。

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

问题是，这个角色不是世袭的，也没有选择下一个角色的程序。

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

而且这些数字虽然引人注目，却低估了社会向世袭制的转变。

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

这几乎就是那个时期的世袭血统主张。

Eccentricity was so general as to become hereditary distinction.

怪癖是如， 以至于成为世袭的区别。

But governments have also sought the mantle of gifts when compensating their employees For example, land grants to hereditary nobility were usually presented as gifts, yet these were false gifts because the grant was as a rule revocable.

但政府在补偿员工时， 也试图披上礼物的外衣。例如，给予世袭贵族的土地赠与通常被当作礼物，但实际上这些是伪礼物， 因为赠与通常可以被销。

And what you have is a row which sets up this really political theme because Agamemnon is by heredity the most powerful king only because he's the son of the son of the sun.

于是，你便有了这场争执，它引发了这一极具政治意味的主题，因为阿伽门农凭借世袭成为最强大的国王，仅仅因为他乃太阳神之孙。

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，就里流行的戏剧一样，尽管如，人们对它的感受仍然很深，也许就一个世袭贵族在他的命令下堕落一样。

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.

他的世袭贵族血统提供了一个严格的准则，不允许他根据德国人民而不是鲁士国王来构想他的作品。

Some of these inequalities might be obvious, based on what we’ve talked about already – like patrilineal lines of descent that make it impossible for women to hold wealth or gain power.

一些这些不平等可能显而易见，基于我们之前讨论的内容——比如父系的世袭制度使得女性无法拥有财富或获得权力。

Such, indeed, has been the wretchedness that has flowed from hereditary honours, riches, and monarchy, that men of lively sensibility have almost uttered blasphemy in order to justify the dispensations of providence.

确实，世袭的荣誉、财富和君主制造成了如不幸，以至于活泼敏感的人几乎要说出亵渎的话来为天意的安排辩护。

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的成员，这是一个致力于退伍军人福利的组织， 批评者认为它是滋生世袭军事贵族的温床。

There is a homely proverb, which speaks a shrewd truth, that whoever the devil finds idle he will employ. And what but habitual idleness can hereditary wealth and titles produce?

有一句家喻户晓的谚语道出了一个精明的真理，那就是魔鬼发现无所事事的人就会雇用他。世袭的财富和头衔除了习惯性的懒惰之外还能产生什么？

Dorothea was not at all tired, and a little circuit was made towards a fine yew-tree, the chief hereditary glory of the grounds on this side of the house.

多萝西娅一点也不累，朝一棵美丽的紫杉树绕了一小圈，这是房子这一边的土地上世袭的主要荣耀。

One of the things that made this hereditary class so interesting was that each samurai was entitled to an annual salary from the daimyo called a stipend.

让这个世袭阶级如有趣的事情之一是每个武士都有权从大名那里获得称为津贴的年薪。

Not everyone in Britain is a monarchist and the passing of Queen Elizabeth will not change their views on a hereditary head of state.

并非所有英国人都支持君主制，伊丽莎白女王的去世也不会改变他们对世袭国家元首的看法。

For moderates, though, they wanted a proper hereditary succession, which meant Oliver's eldest son, Richard, which would be in that long tradition.

然而， 对于中派人士来说， 他们希望有一个正当的世袭继承，这意味着奥利弗的长子理查德将会继承，这符合长期的传统。

That took Ned by surprise. He stopped, startled, and turned to look at his king. The words came unbidden. " The Arryns have always been Wardens of the East. The title goes with the domain. "

奈德大吃一惊，错愕地停下脚步，转身面对国王，脱口便道：" 艾林家族世代担任东境守护，这是个世袭的职位啊。"

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

他们也没有贵族所享有的世袭特权。

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

从，华氏成为宋国的世袭贵公子。