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

• 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 gens elects its sachem and its chief.
  氏族选举一个酋长和一个首领。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• It adopted strangers into the gens.
  它收养外人加入氏族。
• 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。
• 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 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；
• As long as the land belonged to the gens, no such power could exist.
  只要土地是氏族的财产，这种可能性是不存在的。