phratry中文什么意思

n.
1.【希腊史】(雅典的)氏族。
2.【社会学】宗族分支〔部落中由数个奉同一图腾的氏族组成的族外通婚单位〕。

例句与用法

1. However , circular house couldnot satisfy the other demands from all aspects because of the improved living standard and the gradually defined ideas for location , social order and rating . so the square house made its appearance to complement the disadvantages of the circular house . square style and circular style coexisted afterward , and the coexisted styled houses were discovered in many explored relics of primary phratry society of china
   随着人们生活需求的提高和日渐清晰的方位观念、次序观念和等级观念的形成,圆形住宅难以满足上述要求时,方形住宅出现了,其后圆方形住宅共存,继而在方圆形式上又演化生出明堂形制建筑。

英文释义

名词

1. people descended from a common ancestor; "his family has lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower"
   同义词：family, family line, folk, kinfolk, kinsfolk, sept

百科释义

In ancient Greece, a phratry (phratria, )ατρ?α, "brotherhood", "kinfolk", derived from φρατ?ρ meaning "brother") was a social division of the Greek tribe (phyle). The nature of these phratries is, in the words of one historian, "the darkest problem among the [Greek] social institutions.