Tribe
[traɪb]
解释:
(noun.) (biology) a taxonomic category between a genus and a subfamily.
(noun.) a federation (as of American Indians).
(noun.) a social division of (usually preliterate) people.
布丽奇特编辑--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) A family, race, or series of generations, descending from the same progenitor, and kept distinct, as in the case of the twelve tribes of Israel, descended from the twelve sons of Jacob.
(n.) A number of species or genera having certain structural characteristics in common; as, a tribe of plants; a tribe of animals.
(n.) A nation of savages or uncivilized people; a body of rude people united under one leader or government; as, the tribes of the Six Nations; the Seneca tribe.
(n.) A division, class, or distinct portion of a people, from whatever cause that distinction may have originated; as, the city of Athens was divided into ten tribes.
(n.) A family of animals descended from some particular female progenitor, through the female line; as, the Duchess tribe of shorthorns.
(v. t.) To distribute into tribes or classes.
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同义词及近义词：
n. [1]. Family, race, clan.[2]. Class (of persons or things), order, division, distinct portion.
欧内斯廷编辑
解释:
n. an aggregate of stocks—a stock being an aggregate of persons considered to be kindred—or an aggregate of families forming a community usually under the government of a chief: a number of things having certain common qualities.—adj. Trib′al.—n. Trib′alism.—adv. Trib′ally.—ns. Tribe′let; Tribes′man.
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例句:
- The tribe was a big family; the nation a group of tribal families; a household often contained hundreds of people. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- As soon as the tribe found out that we had a doctor in our party, they began to flock in from all quarters. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- For hours the fury of the storm continued without surcease, and still the tribe huddled close in shivering fear. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- If he belonged to some savage tribe he had a savage wife--a dozen of them perhaps--and wild, half-caste children. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- It missed its mark, and completely failed, as is often the way with his tribe too. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
- The head of the household or the tribe was less of a leader and more of a master, more like the Pal?olithic Old Man. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Next to the cocoanut tree, the date is unquestionably the most interesting and useful of the palm tribe. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- Except for quite personal possessions, there was still an air of patriarchal communism about the tribe. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- But they are an extinct tribe that never existed. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- There are no fish of the shark tribe in the Bower waters? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- I have just one word to say of the whole tribe; they are a nuisance. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- In his life he had fought for his tribe, even if he had bullied it. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- All the tribe have heard. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- On the whole, it was probably some creature of the weasel and stoat tribe--and yet it is larger than any of these that I have seen. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
- There he at once became interested in teaching his father’s system of Visible Speech to a tribe of Mohawk Indians in the neighborhood. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- Warlike Tribes have been put to flight so easily by civilised armies in modern times that such tribes have been doubted as possessing their boasted or even natural courage. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- He made these of honey, of barley, and, as the Aryan tribes spread southward, of the grape. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Among nations of hunters, such as the native tribes of North America, age is the sole foundation of rank and precedency. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- It is well known that Indians are of different tribes, nations, and languages, as well as the white people. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
- The Latin tribes on the other side of the Tiber were by comparison barbaric. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Possibly they pronounced their consonants very hard and had rather indeterminate vowels, as is said to be still the case with tribes of South Arabia. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Probably each of these original tribes was not more numerous altogether than the Indians in Hudson Bay Territory to-day. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- There were quite a number of remnants of tribes in the vicinity of Portland in Oregon, and of Fort Vancouver in Washington Territory. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
- Mixed races produce mixed results, splendid, I own, in many cases, but not so severely unique and classic as would be the case with untamed tribes. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- The tribes are represented by their totems, martens, bear, manfish, and catfish, led by the crane. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- These Etruscan people conquered most of Italy north of the Tiber from the Aryan tribes who were scattered over that country. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Crassus found himself against the Scythian again; against mobile tribes of horsemen led by a monarch in Median costume. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- The sheiks of the tribes, under a king of the poets, sat in judgment and awarded prizes; the prize songs were sung through all Arabia. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Take the case of our own Indian tribes. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- Wu Wang seems to have been helped by allies from among the south-western tribes as well as by a popular revolt. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
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