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
- he had no sons and there was no one to carry on his 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。 - Marriages of Wa People 8. Prohibition of marriage within the gens except in the case of heiresses.
佤族同姓婚禁忌探析&以班奈村佤族同姓婚禁忌为例8·禁止氏族内部通婚,但和女继承人结婚例外。 - 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。 - 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 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; - 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。 - No member is permitted to marry within the gens.
氏族的任何成员都不得在氏族内部通婚。 - 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; - 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; - 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。