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

问题是，这个角色不是袭，也没有选择下一个角色程序。

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，却低估了社会向袭制转变。

Eccentricity was so general as to become hereditary distinction.

怪癖是如此普遍， 以至于成为袭区别。

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

君主国不是袭就是新。在袭君主国里，长期以来君主后裔就是那里君主。

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

从此，华氏成为宋国袭贵公子。

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

们也没有贵族所享有袭特权。

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袭贵族之间阶层成员。

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

她最后告诉要改过自新，以免对袭联盟造成不可挽回损害。

The places of judges were purchased, and were in fact largely hereditary, and so on through much of the higher grade of employments.

法官职位是买来，实际上大部分是袭，等等，通过许多更高级别就业。

Had they followed their hereditary taste, the New England settlers would have illustrated all events of public importance by bonfires, banquets, pageantries, and processions.

如果们遵循们袭品味，新英格兰定居者就会用篝火、宴会、盛会和游行来说明所有具有公共重要性事件。

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袭社会趋势：至少爱尔兰遗产价值不多，近年来也没有增加多少。

The serf wore the blue coat, which was the customary garb of serving-men at that period, and long before, in the old hereditary halls of England.

农奴身穿蓝色外套，这是那个时期和很久以前英国古老袭厅堂中仆人习惯装束。

" Monarchies" are usually, but not always, " hereditary" – that is, the son or daughter of the king and queen becomes the next king or queen.

“君主制” 通常但不总是“袭”——即国王和王后儿子或女儿成为下一任国王或王后。

Although the pillar stood upon the hereditary estate of her husband the lady had never visited it, owing to its insulation by this well-nigh impracticable ground.

尽管这根柱子矗立在她丈夫袭庄园上，但由于这块几乎不切实际地面将其隔热，这位女士从未去过它。

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.

让这个袭阶级如此有趣事情之一是每个武士都有权从大名那里获得称为津贴年薪。

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，朝一棵美丽紫杉树绕了一小圈，这是房子这一边土地上袭主要荣耀。

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?

有一句家喻户晓谚语道出了一个精明真理，那就是魔鬼发现无所事事人就会雇用。袭财富和头衔除了习惯性懒惰之外还能产生什么？

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，袭荣誉、财富和君主制造成了如此不幸，以至于活泼敏感人几乎要说出亵渎话来为天意安排辩护。

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.

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

It treasured itself up, too, in the half-open till, where there still lingered a base sixpence, worth neither more nor less than the hereditary pride which had here been put to shame.

它也把自己珍藏在半开收银台里，那里还留着一个基本六便士，不多也不比在这里蒙羞袭骄傲值钱。