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。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I wonder were we so wise to live with the family and save money?"
-- The family opened it, babbling.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was weighed down by debt, his brother's family was depen-dent on him, he was forced to write at heart-breaking speed, and is said never to have corrected his work.
-- She has a room at the Kapernaumovs' the tailors, she lodges with them; Kapernaumov is a lame man with a cleft palate and all of his numerous family have cleft palates too.
-- It appeared that the family had a room to themselves, not part of a room, but their room was practically a passage.
-- She knows everyone in the neighbourhood, and that month she was continually coming into the town, and as she is rather talkative and fond of gossiping about her family affairs and particularly of complaining to all and each of her husband which is not at all right so in a short time she had spread her story not only in the town, but over the whole surrounding dis-trict.
-- In that letter she reproached him with great heat and indigna-tion for the baseness of his behaviour in regard to Marfa 52 Crime and PunishmentPetrovna, reminding him that he was the father and head of a family and telling him how infamous it was of him to tor-ment and make unhappy a defenceless girl, unhappy enough already.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I was nursery-governess in a family where Mr. Copperfield came to visit.
-- I really couldn't help thinking, as I sat taking in all this, that themisfortune extended to some other members of that family besidesMrs. Gummidge.
-- I am not certain whether I found out then orafterwards, that, without being actively concerned in any business,he had some share in, or some annual charge upon the profits of, awine-merchant's house in London, with which his family had beenconnected from his great-grandfather's time, and in which hissister had a similar interest; but I may mention it in this place,whether or no.
-- I slept soundly until we got toYarmouth: which was so entirely new and strange to me in the inn-yard to which we drove, that I at once abandoned a latent hope Ihad had of meeting with some of Mr. Peggotty's family there,perhaps even with little Em'ly herself.
-- 'If I hadn't a family, and that family hadn't the cowpock,' said thewaiter, 'I wouldn't take a sixpence.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'But, my dear, pray do not make any more matches; they are silly things, and break up one's family circle grievously.'
-- They were a family of the name of Martin, whomEmma well knew by character, as renting a large farm of Mr. Knightley, and residing in the parish of Donwell very creditably, she believed she knew Mr. Knightley thought highly of them but they must be coarse and unpolished, and very unfit to be the intimates of a girl who wanted only a little more knowledge and elegance to be quite perfect.
-- For some time she was amused, without thinking be-yond the immediate cause; but as she came to understand the family better, other feelings arose.
-- Whatever money he might come into when his father died, whatever his share of the family property, it is, I dare say, all afloat, all employed in his stock, and so forth; and though, with diligence and good luck, he may be rich in time, it is next to impossible that he should have realised any thing yet.'
-- Mr. Elton's situation was most suitable, quite the gentleman himself, and with-out low connexions; at the same time, not of any family that could fairly object to the doubtful birth of Harriet.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Blushes hev been in the family for generations.
-- When, in the writings of the later poets, Jove and his family are found to have moved from their cramped quarters on the peak of Olympus into the wide sky above it, their words show a proportionate increase of arrogance and reserve.
-- Though in one sense a woman of the world, it was, after all, that world of daylight coteries and green carpets wherein cattle form the passing crowd and winds the busy hum; where a quiet family of rabbits or hares lives on the other side of your party-wall, where your neighbour is everybody in the tything, and where calculation is confined to market-days.
-- 'That man of a family that has come to the dogs.'
-- Bathsheba shook her dress to get rid of them, when multitudes of the same family lying round about her rose and fluttered away in the breeze thus created, "like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing."
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Behind the house a yard extends for some twenty feet, a space inhabited by a happy family of pigs, poultry, and rabbits; the wood-shed is situated on the further side, and on the wall between the wood-shed and the kitchen window hangs the meat-safe, just above the place where the sink discharges its greasy streams.
-- At that time one of the rooms was tenanted by a law student, a young man from the neighborhood of Angouleme, one of a large family who pinched and starved themselves to spare twelve hundred francs a year for him.
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