- A clan is an extended family. Your clan might include your parents and siblings, but also your cousins and second cousins, aunts and uncles, and grandparents.
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- n. 宗族；部落；集团
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1. I met a number of the senior Senoussi clan in Tripoli and have no doubt they would be ready to assume leadership of anti-Gadaffi forces.
在的黎波里我遇见大量的高级赛怒西宗族的人，并且一点也不怀疑他们将准备建立反卡扎菲武装的领导力量。
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2. These towns and their villages were the inheritance of the tribe of Naphtali, clan by clan.
这些城并属城的村庄就是拿弗他利支派按着宗族所得的地业。
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3. Corruption flourishes because the clan runs things for its own benefit.
腐败猖獗是因为宗族统治只关心其自身利益。
- clan (n.) "a family, a tribe," especially, among the Highlanders of Scotland, a form of social organization consisting of a tribe holding land in common under leadership of a chieftain, early 15c., from Gaelic clann "family, stock, offspring," akin to Old Irish cland "offspring, tribe," both from Latin planta "offshoot" (see plant (n.)).
clan / klæn ; NAmE klæn / noun [countable + singular or plural verb ] 1 a group of families who are related to each other, especially in Scotland （尤指苏格兰的）宗族，氏族，家族 ◆ the Macleod clan 麦克劳德氏族 ◆ clan warfare 宗族冲突 2 ( informal, sometimes humorous) a very large family, or a group of people who are connected because of a particular thing 庞大的家族；宗派；帮派；小集团 ◆ one of a growing clan of stars who have left Hollywood 脱离了好莱坞的那帮人数日益增多的明星中的一员 clan clans clan / klæn ; NAmE klæn /
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