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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• A division of the tribe or of the gens into different classes was equally impossible.
  同样，部落和氏族分为不同的阶级也是不可能的。
• 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；
• 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 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。