gens

1. 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。
2. 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。
3. But if it was a sister's son who was sacrificed, then the most sacred law of the gens was violated.
   但是假如成为牺牲品的是姊妹的儿子，那么这就违反了最神圣的氏族法规；
4. 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。
5. 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。
6. By his discovery of this simple fact Morgan has revealed for the first time the nature of the gens.
   摩尔根由于发现了这个简单的事实，就第一次阐明了氏族的本质。
7. 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；
8. 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。
9. 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。
10. 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。
11. 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；
12. 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。
13. 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；
14. It adopted strangers into the gens.
    它收养外人加入氏族。
15. 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。
16. The impulse given by the gens to the prevention of marriage between blood relatives extended still further.
    氏族在禁止血缘亲属结婚方面所起的推动作用，使事情更加向前发展了。
17. 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。
18. 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。
19. 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。
20. 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。
21. The gens elects its sachem and its chief.
    氏族选举一个酋长和一个首领。
22. 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。
23. 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。
24. 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。
25. 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。
26. 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；
27. 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。
28. 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。

noun

1. family based on male descent
   1. he had no sons and there was no one to carry on his name

   Synonym:    name