Family

(noun.) primary social group; parents and children; 'he wanted to have a good job before starting a family'.

(noun.) people descended from a common ancestor; 'his family has lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower'.

(noun.) a social unit living together; 'he moved his family to Virginia'; 'It was a good Christian household'; 'I waited until the whole house was asleep'; 'the teacher asked how many people made up his home'.

(noun.) (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more genera; 'sharks belong to the fish family'.

(noun.) an association of people who share common beliefs or activities; 'the message was addressed not just to employees but to every member of the company family'; 'the church welcomed new members into its fellowship'.

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• The tribe was a big family; the nation a group of tribal families; a household often contained hundreds of people. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Miss Vye's family is a good one on her mother's side; and her father was a romantic wanderer--a sort of Greek Ulysses. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• You made a quiet little round game of it, among a family group, and you played it out at leisure. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• It is curious that my mother, too, ran away from her family, but not for the sake of her husband. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• I cordially invite you, sir, to second my efforts in the sacred interests of the family. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• The family don't want her here, and they'll say it's because I've been ill, because I'm a weak old woman, that she's persuaded me. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• It is called the Indo-European or ARYAN family. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• In the service I mentally insert Miss Shepherd's name--I put her in among the Royal Family. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• I happen to know that he paid seven hundred pounds to a footman for a note two lines in length, and that the ruin of a noble family was the result. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• We have turned our attention to that experiment, on the suggestion of my family, and we find it fallacious. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Mr Sampson murmured that this was the sort of thing you might expect from one who had ever in her own family been an example and never an outrage. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Secondly, In Pennsylvania there is no right of primogeniture, and lands, like moveables, are divided equally among all the children of the family. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• What a wrong, to cut off the girl from the family protection and inheritance only because she had chosen a man who was poor! 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• I am less unfit to teach in a school than in a family. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Superiority of birth supposes an ancient superiority of fortune in the family of the person who claims it. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The tribe was a big family; the nation a group of tribal families; a household often contained hundreds of people. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• He once said that he was educated in a university where all the students belonged to families of the aristocracy; and the highest class in the university all wore little red caps. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• In most families there comes, now and then, a year full of events. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• An undue love of Self leads to the most monstrous crimes and occasions the greatest misfortunes both in States and Families. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• This invention is practically a gift to the workingmen of the world and their families. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• V ARKWRIGHT AND THE SPINNING-JENNY 1732-1792 All the great English inventors have sprung from families of small means, and have had to work for their living. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• At least in some families, Rebecca continued. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• I am sure we are constantly hearing, ma'am, till it becomes quite nauseous, concerning their wives and families,' said Bitzer. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• They say that there are some families almost starving to death in Briarfield. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• But I must not shrink from a professional duty, even if it sows dissensions in families. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• There were families in London who would have sacrificed a year's income to receive such an honour at the hands of those great ladies. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Miserliness is a capital quality to run in families; it's the safe side for madness to dip on. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• A degree or two lower, and a creditable appearance might interest me; I might hope to be useful to their families in some way or other. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• The elder De Candolle has made nearly similar observations on the general nature of the affinities of distinct families of plants. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• The regular and best families Emma could hardly suppose they would presume to inviteneither Donwell, nor Hartfield, nor Randalls. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.

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