primogeniture

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To see how, think about what happens to a farm as it is handed down the generations in a country without primogeniture.
要问原因，就想想在一个无长子继承制的国家中将一农场移交给下一代会发生什么事情吧。
The Three Mile Island nuclear disaster, the medieval origins of primogeniture and evolutionary biology are all enlisted to shed light on different aspects of financial risk.
之后三里岛核事故，中世纪长子继承权的起源和生物进化理论都被用来清楚明白地阐明金融风险的不同方面。
Proposed constitutional changes to the role of the upper house of parliament or the monarchy's male primogeniture rule have been continually postponed because they are so thorny.
涉及上议院职能及皇室长子继承制的宪改提议持续遭到搁置，原因是它们太过于敏感。

Why does he go against the traditional Ancient Near Eastern practice of primogeniture, inheritance by the first born?
为什么他要违背传统古代近东的惯例,也就是长子继承制，由第一个儿子继承？
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The principal social difference was that Japan had primogeniture laws pertaining to inheritance and China did not.
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To see how, think about what happens to a farm as it is handed down the generations in a country without primogeniture.
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the custom by which all of a family's property goes to the oldest son when the father dies