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

• 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。
• 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。
• All the male members of the gens were equally eligible.
  凡是本氏族的男性成员都具有同等的被选资格。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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 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。
• 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。
• 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；