sachem

n. (印第安)酋长, (政党)领袖

n. 酋长；政党领袖；（美）坦慕尼协会的干事

1. In what sense the offices of sachem and chieftain were hereditary among the Iroquois and other Indians, we have already seen.
   我们已经看到，易洛魁人和其它印第安人的酋长职位是怎样继承的。
2. The lights of the hotel and the cottages became yellow dots, a cluster of glow-worms at the base of Sachem Mountain.
   旅馆和棚屋的灯光变成了小黄点，宛如萨钦姆山脚下的一群萤火虫。
3. The gens elects its sachem and its chief.
   氏族选举一个酋长和一个首领。
4. The gens elects its sachem head of the gens in peace and its chief leader in war.
   氏族选举一个酋长平时的首脑和一个首领军事领袖。
5. But a general council was never convened to raise up chiefs below the grace of a sachem.
   不过，对于级别低于首领的酋长，从来不召开一次大会来推举他就职。
6. The authority of the sachem within the gens was paternal, and purely moral in character;
   酋长在氏族内部的权力，是父亲般的、纯粹道德性质的；
7. A son was never chosen to succeed his father as sachem, since mother-right prevailed among the Iroquois and the son consequently belonged to a different gens; but the office might and often did pass to a brother of the previous sachem or to his sister's son.
   由于易洛魁人奉行母权制，因而酋长的儿子属于别一氏族，所以从不选举前一酋长的儿子做酋长，而是往往选举他的兄弟做酋长，或者选举他的姊妹的儿子做酋长。
8. He could not go out to war as a sachem.
   首领的身份是不能够参加战争的。
9. Sachem experience with BF control
   SACHEM在高炉生产控制方面的经验