Clan
[klæn]
解釋/意思:
(n.) A tribe or collection of families, united under a chieftain, regarded as having the same common ancestor, and bearing the same surname; as, the clan of Macdonald.
(n.) A clique; a sect, society, or body of persons; esp., a body of persons united by some common interest or pursuit; -- sometimes used contemptuously.
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同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Race, tribe, family.[2]. Clique, COTERIE, set, gang, brotherhood, fraternity, sodality.
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解釋/意思:
n. a tribe or collection of families subject to a single chieftain bearing the same surname and supposed to have a common ancestor: a clique sect: a collective name for a number of persons or things.—adj. Clan′nish closely united like the members of a clan.—adv. Clan′nishly.—ns. Clan′nishness; Clan′ship association of families under a chieftain: feeling of loyalty to a clan; Clans′man a member of a clan.
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例句/造句/用法:
- Very far they rode that night, and in the morning he stopped outside the lands of his clan, and dismounted beside a sandy river. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The little state was ruled by a family, the Sakya clan, of which this man, Siddhattha Gautama, was a member. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Siddhattha was his personal name, like Caius or John; Gautama, or G?tama, his family name, like C?sar or Smith; Sakya his clan name, like Julius. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Mrs. Welland exclaimed when her mother's last plan was hinted to her; and from this unthinkable indecency the clan recoiled with a collective shudder. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- This IS a gathering of the clans. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Man was now living in clans and tribal communities. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Some of the chief Rajput clans of to-day in Rajputana in North India are descended, it is said, from these White Huns. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- These clans and communities clashed; they took each other's grazing land, they sought to rob each other; there began a new thing in human life, _war_. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
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