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
- 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 gens elects its sachem and its chief.
氏族选举一个酋长和一个首领。 - 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; - 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。 - 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。 - The Roman gens is recognized to be the same institution as the Greek gens;
人们公认,罗马氏族的制度和希腊氏族的制度是相同的; - 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 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。 - The religious rites of the Indians are, however, more or less connected with the gens.
不过印第安人的宗教仪式多少都是和氏族联系在一起的。 - 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。