tribal society

基本解释

“This is still a tribal society,” says a diplomat in Sana’a.
“這仍是是個部落社會”一個薩那的外交官說。
As an Arab sociologist puts it, in a tribal society you do not buy loyalty, you only rent it.
正如一位阿拉伯社會學家所說的，在一個部落社會中，你不是在收買忠誠，衹是在租賃。
In a tribal society, where honour and sacrifice are prized, many Pakistanis are expected to give a sympathy vote to the PPP.
在巴基斯坦這樣一個榮譽與犧牲都倍受贊頌的部族社會，巴基斯坦人民黨期待更多的巴基斯坦人能投選該黨，以得到他們的同情。

"It is complex difficult terrain, both the land and the people, it is a tribal society with a culture vastly different from what most of us are familiar with and it varies around the country, so you cannot assume what is true in one province is true in another,".
But the tribal structure of Israelite society that would develop would be strengthened by the natural division of the land into these separate geographical areas that only reinforced the tribalization of society. And these local tribes probably did assimilate elements of the local population.
但是以色列社會的部落形態卻會發展,被不斷地加強,因爲土地自然劃分爲分離的地理區域,這加強了社會的部落化，這些儅地的部落,很可能同化了儅地人口的特點。
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