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 impulse given by the gens to the prevention of marriage between blood relatives extended still further.
  氏族在禁止血缘亲属结婚方面所起的推动作用，使事情更加向前发展了。
• 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。
• 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；
• 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。
• 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。
• There is no sense in this rule unless a woman may not marry a member of her own gens.
  这一惯例只有在女子不能和同氏族人结婚的前提下才有意义。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。