gens

英 [dʒenz]

美 [dʒenz]

n.  （罗马法）部落；氏族；宗族

英英释义

noun

• family based on male descent
  1. he had no sons and there was no one to carry on his name
  Synonym:name

双语例句

• Thus while each gens was strictly exogamous, the tribe embracing all the gentes was no less endogamous.
  这样，要是氏族是严格外婚制的，那么包括了所有这些氏族的部落，便成了同样严格内婚制的了。
• That is, he would have had the right to make dispositions in the affairs of a gens to which he did not even belong.
  这就是说，他有权处理他所不属于的那个氏族的事务了。
• As long as the land belonged to the gens, no such power could exist.
  只要土地是氏族的财产，这种可能性是不存在的。
• Marriages of Wa People 8. Prohibition of marriage within the gens except in the case of heiresses.
  佤族同姓婚禁忌探析&以班奈村佤族同姓婚禁忌为例8·禁止氏族内部通婚，但和女继承人结婚例外。
• The authority of the sachem within the gens was paternal, and purely moral in character;
  酋长在氏族内部的权力，是父亲般的、纯粹道德性质的；
• According to the story, only one boy who had remained behind survived to propagate the gens.
  只剩下一个男孩，延续了这个氏族。
• The gens elects its sachem and its chief.
  氏族选举一个酋长和一个首领。
• The gens attempted to uproot the entire conjugal system of the period by its direct action.
  氏族组织曾打算采取直接行动根除这个时期流行的整个同居制度。
• No member is permitted to marry within the gens.
  氏族的任何成员都不得在氏族内部通婚。
• Prohibition of marriage within the gens except in the case of heiresses.
  8·禁止氏族内部通婚，但和女继承人结婚例外。