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的转变。

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

问题是，这个角色不是世袭的，也没有选择下一个角色的程序。

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

首先，与大多数家族企业不同，领导权是世袭的。

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

苏格兰领主，在苏格兰，是介于普人和世袭贵族之间的阶层成员。

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

我们没有国王就迷失了方向，而还是一个世袭的国王。

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核心的。

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

这几乎就像是那个时期的世袭血统主张。

Eccentricity was so general as to become hereditary distinction.

怪癖是如此普遍， 以至于成世袭的区别。

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

从此，华氏成宋国的世袭贵公子。

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

他们也没有贵族所享有的世袭特权。

Initially, these titles weren't actually hereditary.

最初，这些头衔实际上并不是世袭的。

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

他们的解决方案是回归拥有世袭国家元首的古代宪法。

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

常这是一个世袭的头衔，因此如果你的父亲是国王， 你也有可能成国王。

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

因这会回归到那些常与裙带关系和世袭度相伴的隐形偏见形式。

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

君主国不是世袭的就是新的。在世袭君主国里，期以来君主的后裔就是那里的君主。

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， 这种世袭的酋度变得越来越复杂，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新，以免对他的世袭联盟造成不可挽回的损害。

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

还有一种不能世袭的勋爵，称终身贵族。

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，因我们仍在争论是否应该废除上议院的世袭贵族。

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， 君主是世袭的，或者说是血统决定的， 作候任国王，查尔斯被期望能有一个继承人。