汉英词典
Chinese-English Dictionary
MEANING OF 氏族
氏族
clan
〈名〉原始社会由血统关系联系起来的人的集体,氏族内部实行禁婚,集体占有生产资料,集体生产,集体消费。也叫氏族公社。
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EXAMPLE SENTENCES

他爸爸是氏族族长。

His father is the chieftain of the clan.

卑微的氏族有其共同仪典。

The humbler gentes had their common rites .

貔“指以雪豹为图腾的氏族。”

"PI" indicates totem clan of snow leopard.

图腾就是原始人迷信某种动物或自然物同氏族有血缘关系,因而用来做本氏族的徽号或标志。

Therefore, a certain animal or plant could be used as the image or sign of the ethnic group.

有人推测这可能是半坡氏族崇奉的图腾。

Some believed that fish was the totem of Banpo primitives.

所以他转而来到了苏格兰,创立了我们氏族

So he went instead to Scotland and there founded our clan.

我是霜狼氏族的酋长,他骄傲地说。

I am Warchief of the Horde, he said proudly.

母权制氏族成了整个这门科学所围着旋转的轴心;

The matriarchal gens has become the pivot on which the whole science turns;

氏族其他人享有与博学长老几乎同等的指挥权。

Considered to be the near equal of the savants, commanding nearly as much respect from the rest of the clan.

每个家庭都有自己的仇怨;每个氏族都有自己的世仇。

Every family cultivates its vendetta; every clan, its feud.