aristocracies

例句:

• Modern anthropologists incline to the view that primitive societies were neither monarchies, aristocracies nor democracies.
  今天的人类学者倾向于认为,早期人类社会既不是帝王专制 、 也不是贵族分权,也不是民主形式.
  
• When one recalls how aristocracies in the past actually behaved, the prospect is not cheerful.
  当一个人回忆过去贵族的所作所为, 前景就不会乐观了.
  
• To be enlightened is to question and challenge such aristocracies, be they aristocracies of wealth, politics or the church.
  来自BBC