日本现代企业集团的前身是近世的藩主家臣团，也称“家”，藩主与家臣的关系具有雇佣与被雇佣的性质。

The predecessor of the modern enterprise groups is called "home", and seigniors and retainers are of employment relation.

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陶器刻划符号与文字有着密切关系，是由原始记事方法向文字的过渡形态，是文字的前身，与文字有着渊源关系并一脉相承。

Pottery carved signs are the transition from the way of write notes to the character, it's the predecessor of the character, and they have the relation with the same strain.

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同时这一年也是巴克莱——一家英国银行选择了普华永道的前身作为其审计师，一种关系在这一天破裂了。

And 1896 was also the year that Barclays, a British bank, chose an ancestor of PwC as its auditor, a relationship unbroken to this day.

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