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
- he had no sons and there was no one to carry on his 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 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。 - 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。 - 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 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。 - But if it was a sister's son who was sacrificed, then the most sacred law of the gens was violated.
但是假如成为牺牲品的是姊妹的儿子，那么这就违反了最神圣的氏族法规； - The gens elects its sachem and its chief.
氏族选举一个酋长和一个首领。 - 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。 - The gens elects its sachem head of the gens in peace and its chief leader in war.
氏族选举一个酋长平时的首脑和一个首领军事领袖。 - 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；