Family
['fæmɪlɪ;-m(ə)l-] or ['fæməli]
解釋/意思:
(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'.
达米安校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) The collective body of persons who live in one house, and under one head or manager; a household, including parents, children, and servants, and, as the case may be, lodgers or boarders.
(v. t.) The group comprising a husband and wife and their dependent children, constituting a fundamental unit in the organization of society.
(v. t.) Those who descend from one common progenitor; a tribe, clan, or race; kindred; house; as, the human family; the family of Abraham; the father of a family.
(v. t.) Course of descent; genealogy; line of ancestors; lineage.
(v. t.) Honorable descent; noble or respectable stock; as, a man of family.
(v. t.) A group of kindred or closely related individuals; as, a family of languages; a family of States; the chlorine family.
(v. t.) A group of organisms, either animal or vegetable, related by certain points of resemblance in structure or development, more comprehensive than a genus, because it is usually based on fewer or less pronounced points of likeness. In zoology a family is less comprehesive than an order; in botany it is often considered the same thing as an order.
錄入:保拉
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Household.[2]. Lineage, race, tribe, clan, kindred, house, line of ancestors.[3]. Order, group of genera.
手打:尼尔
同義詞及反義詞：
[See_FAMILIAR]
錄入:尼科尔
解釋/意思:
n. the household or all those who live in one house under one head including parents children servants: the children of a person: the descendants of one common progenitor: race: honourable or noble descent: a group of animals plants languages &c. more comprehensive than a genus.—ns. Fam′ilism the family feeling; Fam′ilist one of the 16th-cent. mystical sect known as the Family of Love which based religion upon love independently of faith.—Family Bible a large Bible for family worship with a page for recording family events; Family coach a large carriage able to carry a whole family; Family man a man with a family: a domesticated man.—Be in the family way to be pregnant; In a family way in a domestic manner.
多琳校對
娱乐性解釋/意思：
To dream of one's family as harmonious and happy, is significant of health and easy circumstances; but if there is sickness or contentions, it forebodes gloom and disappointment.
錄入:李莉斯
娱乐性解釋/意思：
Originally a wife and several children, a matter of pride to the possessor. Now obsolete among the careful, or confined to the wife, a bull pup and a canary bird.
达斯汀錄入
例句/造句/用法:
- The tribe was a big family; the nation a group of tribal families; a household often contained hundreds of people. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- 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. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- You made a quiet little round game of it, among a family group, and you played it out at leisure. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- It is curious that my mother, too, ran away from her family, but not for the sake of her husband. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- I cordially invite you, sir, to second my efforts in the sacred interests of the family. 威爾基·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. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- It is called the Indo-European or ARYAN family. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- In the service I mentally insert Miss Shepherd's name--I put her in among the Royal Family. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- 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. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- We have turned our attention to that experiment, on the suggestion of my family, and we find it fallacious. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- 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. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Secondly, In Pennsylvania there is no right of primogeniture, and lands, like moveables, are divided equally among all the children of the family. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- What a wrong, to cut off the girl from the family protection and inheritance only because she had chosen a man who was poor! 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- I am less unfit to teach in a school than in a family. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Superiority of birth supposes an ancient superiority of fortune in the family of the person who claims it. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The tribe was a big family; the nation a group of tribal families; a household often contained hundreds of people. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- 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. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- In most families there comes, now and then, a year full of events. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- 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·薩克雷. 名利場.
- This invention is practically a gift to the workingmen of the world and their families. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- 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. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- At least in some families, Rebecca continued. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- I am sure we are constantly hearing, ma'am, till it becomes quite nauseous, concerning their wives and families,' said Bitzer. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- They say that there are some families almost starving to death in Briarfield. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- But I must not shrink from a professional duty, even if it sows dissensions in families. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- 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·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Miserliness is a capital quality to run in families; it's the safe side for madness to dip on. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- 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. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- The elder De Candolle has made nearly similar observations on the general nature of the affinities of distinct families of plants. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- The regular and best families Emma could hardly suppose they would presume to inviteneither Donwell, nor Hartfield, nor Randalls. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
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