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。
• 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 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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 elects its sachem and its chief.
  氏族选举一个酋长和一个首领。
• 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。