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

• Liberty, equality, and fraternity, though never formulated, were cardinal principles of the gens.
  自由、平等和博爱，虽然从来没有明确规定，却是氏族的根本原则。
• The matriarchal gens has become the pivot on which the whole science turns;
  母权制氏族成了整个这门科学所围着旋转的轴心；
• 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。
• The religious rites of the Indians are, however, more or less connected with the gens.
  不过印第安人的宗教仪式多少都是和氏族联系在一起的。
• The gens elects its sachem and its chief.
  氏族选举一个酋长和一个首领。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• A division of the tribe or of the gens into different classes was equally impossible.
  同样，部落和氏族分为不同的阶级也是不可能的。
• 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；