If you were an old blue blood, you traced your lineage back centuries, and there was a decent chance that you'd hand your company down to members of your clan.

假如你是一个老贵族，你倒退几世纪追溯你的直系，很有可能你会把自己的公司交给你自己宗族内的成员。

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In 1862, Edith Newbold Jones was born into an “old-established New York clan”, as Ms Lee puts it.

李写道，伊迪丝·纽伯·琼斯（Edith Newbold Jones）1862年出生于一个“老纽约的名门望族”。

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The old Shaikh of the clan picked me to be his heir to succeed the sovereign of Shaikh.

族里的老族长将我立嗣，继承他的族长之位。

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One of the families benefiting from the foreign trade system was the Asgaroladis, an old Jewish clan of bazaar traders, who converted to Islam several generations ago.

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She is 82 years old and a Cameron clan member.

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Another possibility is a new generation of the Torrijos clan, Hugo Torrijos, Panama's former director of ports, backed by the old dictator's son Martin.

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