来自苏格兰盖尔语clann,家族,种族,来自拉丁语planta,新枝,植物,后代。因盖尔语字母 p 不能用做首字母,因而用字母c 代替。比较pole,collar,cycle,来自PIE*kwel,转。
clan 的用法和双语例句“点击”或“选中”例句中的单词,就可以看到词义解释
Yantian is ruled by the deng clan .
统治雁田的是邓氏家族。
The town and its surroundings are the casalesi clan 's turf .
这个小镇及其周边是黑手党卡萨雷希家族的活动范围。
Decades of insurgency have created splinter movements , violent mafia rackets and clan rivalries .
延续几十年的动乱带来不少分裂行动,黑手党暴力勒索以及宗族较量。
Americans build large , efficient organizations that are not bound by the circles of kinship and clan .
美国人建设了大而高效的机构,不被亲属和宗族关系所束缚。
To lend some legitimacy to the process , it relies heavily on somalia 's powerful clan system .
为了使选举过程更具有合法性,索马里十分依赖其强大的宗族系统。
Meanwhile he has concentrated ever more power and wealth in the hands of his own extended family and clan .
与此同时,他也越来越把权力和财富集中在自己的大家庭和宗族的手中。
Just as members of different clans seemed born enemies members of the same clan were predisposed to get along .
就像不同的部落成员就像天生的敌人,而同一个部落里的成员还是趋于和好的。
A national reconciliation conference of clan elders planned for june 14th will not take place , partly because mogadishu remains too dangerous for any public gathering .