1. Matriarchs on their way to visit relatives in the next oasis lay mounded under blankets or quilted coats, and young women curled up with their children in their arms and their scarves swept over their faces.
去下一个绿洲地区看亲戚的老妇人们躺在毛毯里或棉大衣中，好似一座座小山丘，而年轻的妇人则蜷着身子，怀里抱着孩子，并用她们的头巾盖住了自己的脸。
2. Why? Partly because we matriarchs think the youngsters should suffer as we did: we could not have it all, so why should they?
这是为什么呢？一部分是因为，我们这些做母亲的认为，小孩应该尝尝我们小时候吃的苦：要是我们不能什么都有，凭什么他们就该有。
3. So last time we started discussing the historical merits of the biblical stories of the patriarchs and the matriarchs.
上次我们已经开始讨论圣经故事中，男女族长的历史功绩。
4. Week of matron: double growth for Matro and matriarchs.
女王周：女王产量加倍。
5. Lian villagers highly value blood linkage, as well as the connection beyond family and among trades and professions, the former is the custom left by the Zhuang matriarchs society, while the latter is the result of permeation by modern society toward the country.
除了血亲关系外，联村社会还格外看重外家与业缘关系，前者在某种意义上是壮族母系社会的遗风，后者则是现代社会人际关系向乡村社会的渗透。
1. A prolific actress, she made her mark in theater and film generally portraying the matriarchs in family dramas.
2. Naxi matriarchs still hold sway over the men with flexible living and working arrangements that are the very antithesis of machismo.