长子继承权

Although in India the possessions of a parent are divisible at his death, and may be divisible during his life, among all his male children in equal shares, and though this principle of the equal distribution of property extends to every part of the Hindoo institutions, yet wherever public office or political power devolves at the decease of the last Incumbent, the succession is nearly universally according to the rules of Primogeniture.

在印度，虽然父的所有物可在其死亡时加以分割，并且甚至在生前就可以在所有男性子嗣中平均分割，虽然这个平均分配财产的原则推广到印度制度的每一个部分，但当最后一个在职者死亡时，他所传下的官职或政治权利，几乎普遍地根据"长子继承权"的规定而进行继承。

Some ruder tribes may have still practised it, or, what is still more probable, society may have been so slightly removed from its more archaic condition that the minds of some men spontaneously recurred to it, when they were called upon to settle the rules of inheritance for a new form of property, But there is still the question, Why did Primogeniture gradually supersede every other principle of succession?

有些未开化的部落也许还在实行着这种制度，或者更加可能，社会还刚刚离开较古的状态，因此人们在为一种新形式的财产决定继承规则时，就自发地联想到了这种"长子继承权"。

But the position of some of them, of the Celtic clans in particular, was sufficiently near independence within historical times to force on us the conviction that they were once separate imperia, and that Primogeniture regulated the succession to the chieftainship.

但是有一些部族、特别是凯尔特部族的地位从有史以来都近似独立，这使我们不得不深信它们过去曾一度是各别的政府，它的酋长职位是根据&长子继承权&而继承的。

The answer, I think, is, that European society decidedly retrograded during the dissolution of the Carlovingian empire.

但这里还有一个问题，为什么&长子继承权&会逐渐代替了其他一切继承原则？

As in the case of the benefices, the succession to some, but by no means to all, of the estates followed the rule of Primogeniture.

在采地的情况下，有些财产的继承按照&长子继承权&的规定，但并不是全部如此。

Sell ones birthright for a mess of pottage to exchange sth of lasting value for sth that is of value for a short time only 为一碗红豆汤而出卖长子继承权,见利弃义;贪小失大 He has given up his legal studies to work on an oilrig, and although he is earning a lot, it seems to me that he has sold his birthright

for a mess of pottage。他放弃学习法律而到油井工作，虽然赚了不少钱，但在我看来，他是因小失大。

Now, the one known as The Dark star had returned to reclaim his birthright.

现在，这个被称为黑暗之星的人，回来争夺他的长子继承权了。

Singer Leona Lewis and former Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page emerged as the bus transformed into a grass-covered carnival float, and the pair combined for a rendition of "Whole Lotta Love".

歌手leona刘易斯和前率领的飞艇的吉他手吉米页出现巴士转化为基层所涵盖的嘉年华花车，和一双合并为一移交&整个lotta爱&。

This is Kate, and that's Erin.

这是凯特，那个是爱朗。