tribe
n. 部落,部族; [生]族; 一帮,一伙; 大群
Tribe is sometimes used to refer to a group of people of the same race, language, and customs, especially in a developing country. Some people disapprove of this use.
...three-hundred members of the Xhosa tribe.
300 名科萨族人
…a map of Maryland marked with the names of Indian tribes.
标有印第安部落名称的马里兰州地图
You can use tribe to refer to a group of people who are all doing the same thing or who all behave in the same way.
...tribes of talented young people.
一群群才华出众的年轻人
…the particularly unpleasant tribe who argue over the splitting of restaurant and bar bills.
那帮为分摊吃喝账单而争吵的令人非常讨厌的家伙
1. a social division of (usually preliterate) people
2. a federation (as of American Indians)
3. (biology) a taxonomic category between a genus and a subfamily
4. group of people related by blood or marriage
Most of the land his tribe occupied was common land on which the cattle grazed together.
他们的部落所占有的大部分土地是公用的,他们也在这里一起放牧牛群.
These towns and their villages were the inheritance of the tribe of Asher, clan by clan.
这些城并属城的村庄就是亚设支派按着宗族所得的地业.
Every tribe has its own traditions for marking a cub's passage into adulthood.
每个部族都有自己的办法给成年的幼仔留下印记.
There is barbarian tribe living in this forest.
有一个“原始”部落居住在这个林区.
Angles were a German tribe who crossed the English Channel.
盎格鲁人是德国的一个部落,他们首次横渡了英吉利海峡.