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

• 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。
• 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。
• Obligation of mutual protection and help among members of the gens.
  6·同氏族人有互相保护和援助的义务。
• It adopted strangers into the gens.
  它收养外人加入氏族。
• 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 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；
• All offices were elective, generally within a gens, and to that extent hereditary to the gens.
  一切职位多半都是在氏族内部选举的，因而是在氏族范围内世袭的。
• 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；
• 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。
• 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。