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，绝大多数都是终身族，同时也包括族和区主教。

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族间的阶层成员。

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

在英国的殖民地中， 没有一个是族。

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的族。

I would also like to extend my thanks to the other supporters on Patreon, at the Hereditary Noble, Overseer and Scribe level.

同时，我也想向Patreon上其他层级的支持者——族、监督员和文士——表示感谢。

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

议，在殖民地法机构中，相当于英国的上议院，不是由族组成。

By making all male citizens equal before the law, it sought to end primogeniture, the eldest son's right to inherit property, hereditary nobility, and class privilege.

通过使所有男性公民在法律面前平等，它旨在终结长子继承财产的权利、族和阶级特权。

OK. My question for Stephen is how many hereditary peers will be left in the House of Lords after the legislation to throw them all out has passed?

好的，我的问题是：在通过将所有族逐出上议院的法后，上议院中还剩下多少族？

Adoring Ra, the sun, when he rises on the eastern horizon of the sky, by the hereditary noble, the city governor and vizier, passere the true of voice.

崇拜阿蒙-拉，太阳神，当他在天空的东边地平线上升起时，由族、城市长官和维齐尔帕塞尔真诚地赞颂。

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，上议院主要由族组成，像往常一样，国王可以通过任命他的宠臣来增加他们的人数。

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，这避免了整个族问题， 也确保了奥斯曼政府将包含相当多的太监。

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军事族的温床。

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普鲁士国王来构想他的作品。

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，就像节日里流行的戏剧一样，尽管如此，人们对它的感受仍然很深，也许就像一个族在他的命令下堕落一样。

There are, in fact, five hereditary peers who took a life peerage. Stephen got the point. Five hereditary peers who took a life peerage so they could stay in the House of Lords when hereditaries were thrown out.

事实上，有五位族接受了终身族爵位。斯蒂芬明白了这一点。这五位族接受了终身族爵位，以便在族被逐出后，仍能留在上议院。

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撤销。

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.

一个只有族、军政府或执政政党的成员才能做出重大决定的社，是一个抛弃了大多数本国人民的知识、见解和才能的社。