| 词汇 | tribe |
| 释义 | tribe noun[ C, + sing/pl verb ] uk /traɪb/ us /traɪb/ B2 a group of people, often of related families, who live together, sharing the same language, culture, and history, especially those who do not live in towns or cities: 部落;部族 a tribe of Amazonian Indians亚马孙河流域印第安人的一个部落 the Masai tribe马萨伊人部落 informal a large family or other group that someone belongs to: 家族;集团 We invited Carol's sisters and brothers and their families - the whole Cassidy tribe.我们邀请了卡罗尔的兄弟姐妹及其配偶、子女——整个卡西迪家族。 The whole tribe seem to have disappeared off the face of the earth. The communal land is cultivated by the womenfolk in the tribe.这个部落中的公共土地由女性来耕种。 They met a tribe of Somalian desert nomads. Groups of people affinity group alliance an anti-gang assemblage factionally family federation federative First Nation line (someone) up mafia mob online community peer group phalanx posse public scratch syndicate tribe | American Dictionarytribe noun[ C ] us/trɑɪb/ a group of people, often of related families, who live in the same area and share the same language, culture, and history: She has studied Native American tribes from Mexico to Maine. Examples of tribetribe There are no absolute groups of people, defined and delineated once and for all, and to be labelled tribes. However, this study also shows that tribes were not kept intact but underwent a dramatic change in their function and nature. Readers will appreciate the thumbnail accounts of tribes and towns and the maps of mountain ranges, plateaus, wadis, and sub-regions with their primary settlements. The analysis contained 26 species from ten genera in six tribes. Generally, in this area there was great discontent on the part of the subject tribes who mostly resisted paying tax. Officials applied heavily the ' martial race ' doctrine to prewar recruitment, and accorded ' martial ' tribes respect beyond that extended to non-martial peoples. There were also major inter-tribal conflicts, as some group - makhzan tribes - allied with the government to contain subject or rayat tribes. In this they failed, owing to the fact that there were no discrete tribes. Unable to earn a living by cultivation or soldiering, these tribes 'reverted' to a life of vagrancy and crime. Recognising the tribes' intrinsic love of music, missionaries taught them to sing hymns and to understand religious doctrine through the texts of hymns. Second, it tries to show the complex relationship between individual identification and collective identification, especially the formation of criminal tribes. There are examples of large gene frequency differences both between and within tribes that are not always easy to explain in terms of historical ethnography. Despite all these influences the tribes retained much of their own culture and social practice. A brief description of each of the six tribes follows. Most dramatic was the effect on nomadic tribes hitherto subjected to only the loosest control by the central authorities. See all examples of tribe These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. Collocations withtribetribeThese are words often used in combination with tribe. Click on a collocation to see more examples of it. aboriginal tribe Is it too late to take active steps to preserve the aboriginal tribes, who have been there a long time? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 barbarian tribe They decided that of all the barbarian tribes they encountered, they were the most barbarous—a lesson which some people might learn to-day and adopt in this country. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 hill tribe The persecution of an indigenous hilltribe is happening in a country that we support. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. See all collocations with tribe |
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