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，绝大多终身族，同时也包括族和区主教。

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

在英国的殖民地中， 没有一个族。

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

苏格兰领主，在苏格兰，介于普通自由人和族之间的阶层成员。

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，相当于英国的上议院，不由族组成。

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。

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。

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普鲁士国王来构想他的作品。

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.

他还辛辛那提协会的成员，该协会致力于为退伍军人提供福利， 批评者认为该组织军事族的滋生地。

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。

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会，一个抛弃了大多本国人民的知识、见解和才能的社会。