family是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 家， 家庭成员； 氏族， 家庭； 族， 科，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'A tremendous family to provide for.'
-- Then all the Cratchit family drew round the hearth, in what Bob Cratchit called a circle, meaning half a one; 64 Sons and Loversand at Bob Cratchit's elbow stood the family display of glass.
-- Which all the family re-echoed.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Your lighter boxes of family papers went up-stairs into a Barmecide room, that always had a great dining-table in it and never had a dinner, and where, even in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty, the first letters written to you by your old love, 73or by your little children, were but newly released from the horror of being ogled through the windows, by the heads exposed on Temple Bar with an insensate brutality and fe-rocity worthy of Abyssinia or Ashantee.
-- How the virtuous servant, Cly, was his friend and partner, and was worthy to be; how the watchful eyes of those forgers and false swearers had rested on the prisoner as a victim, because some family affairs in France, he being of French extraction, did require his making those 104 A tale of two citiespassages across the Channel though what those affairs were, a consideration for others who were near and dear to him, forbade him, even for his life, to disclose.
-- Firstly, because, on fine Sundays, he often walked out, be-fore dinner, with the Doctor and Lucie; secondly, because, on unfavourable Sundays, he was accustomed to be with them as the family friend, talking, reading, looking out of window, and generally getting through the day; thirdly, be-cause he happened to have his own little shrewd doubts to solve, and knew how the ways of the Doctor's household pointed to that time as a likely time for solving them.
-- 'A compliment,' said the Marquis, 'to the grandeur of the family, merited by the manner in which the family has sus-tained its grandeur.
-- The family honour, sir, is safe from me in this coun-try.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So the copying-clerk came to Copenhagen as guest, or rather as prisoner in a family living in Gother Street.
-- The roof reached to the ground; and the door was so low, that the family were obliged to creep upon their stomachs when they went in or out.
-- The iron railings look just like the door to an old family vault, and then they have brass tops that's so stupid!'
-- 'It is so lonely and melancholy here!But when one has been in a family circle one cannot accustom oneself to this life!I cannot bear it any longer!The whole day is so long, and the evenings are still longer!Here it is not at all as it is over the way at your home, where your fa-ther and mother spoke so pleasantly, and where you and all your sweet children made such a delightful noise.
-- THE HAPPY FAMILY eally, the largest green leaf in this country is a dockleaf; Rif one holds it before one, it is like a whole apron, and if one holds it over one's head in rainy weather, it is almost as good as an umbrella, for it is so immensely large.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy Part One Chapter 1 Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
-- This position of affairs had now lasted three days, and not only the husband and wife themselves, but all the members of their family and household, were painfully conscious of it.
-- Every person in the house felt that there was so sense in their living together, and that the stray people brought together by chance in any inn had more in common with one another than they, the members of the family and household of the Oblonskys.
-- The liberal party said that marriage is an institution quite out of date, and that it needs reconstruction; and family life certainly afforded Stepan Arkadyevitch little gratification, and forced him into lying and hypocrisy, which was so repulsive to his nature.
-- Levin did not remember his own mother, and his only sister was older than he was, so that it was in the Shtcherbatskys' house that he saw for the first time that inner life of an old, noble, cultivated, and honorable family of which he had been deprived by the death of his father and mother.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A family watch, monsieur, which has come down from my great-grandfather!It doesn't vary five minutes in the year.
-- It will be remembered that the obstinate fellow had insisted on keeping his famous family watch at London time, and on regarding that of the countries he had passed through as quite false and unreliable.
-- And Passepartout's famous family watch, which had always kept London time, would have betrayed this fact, if it had marked the days as well as the hours and the minutes!
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His reserve slipped from him and he talked of himself and of his family as though Martin were a contemporary.
-- He took a bank-president out of a dive; he helped the family conceal the disgrace; he irritably refused their bribe; and afterward, when he thought of how he might have dined with Leora, he was sorry he had refused it.
-- He moved his family to a smaller house, and gave up every luxury, even smoking.
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