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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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 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。
• 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。
• 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；