As a symbol of a family clan.

作为一个家族的象征。

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His business is a pre-modern family clan, not an impersonal corporation, and he is staffing his White House as a pre-modern family monarchy, with his relatives and a few royal retainers.

他的企业是一个前现代家族，而非一个非个人化的公司；他在为白宫配置人员的时候将其当成一个前现代家族式君主国，拔擢了自己的若干亲属和几个忠诚的侍从。

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The second factor affecting Mr Yin's staffing policy is: a family enterprise is using the family clan as resources; a family clan is a "non-movable asset" and a resource you can always bank on.

第二个影响尹明善用人的因素是：家族企业是把家族当资源来用的，家族成员是一个“不动产”和随处可取的可靠资源。

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Honor, in most societies, is thought to be not merely a personal quality, something like medieval chivalry but is above all group honor, the honor that surrounds the family, the extended clan, or the religious sect.

在许多社会中,荣誉不仅是追求骑士精神一样，对个人自豪感的追求,它更是一种集体的自豪感，比如一个大家族对自己的成就，或是一个教派对自己成就的荣誉感。

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Meanwhile he has concentrated ever more power and wealth in the hands of his own extended family and clan.

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Favouritism towards Mr Qaddafi's own family, clan and tribe also complicates things.

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