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

• By his discovery of this simple fact Morgan has revealed for the first time the nature of the gens.
  摩尔根由于发现了这个简单的事实，就第一次阐明了氏族的本质。
• 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。
• 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 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。
• These mutual right of inheritance strengthened the autonomy of the gens.
  这些相互继承遗产的权利加强了氏族的自决权。
• As a rule each gens had names for persons that were its special property.
  一般习惯，每一个氏族都有一套个人名字，这是该氏族的特殊财产。
• Another distinctive right of the gens was that of admitting new members by adoption.
  民族的另一个奇特的权利就是收养外人为本氏族的新成员。
• The woman loses her agnatic rights on marriage and leaves her gens;
  妇女出嫁后就丧失了她的阿格纳蒂的权利，而退出自己的氏族；
• 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。
• 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。