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。
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was almost like a family party.
-- The uncertain future of the whole family depended upon him.
-- After much shaking of the branches of the family tree, the old lady came to the conclusion that of all persons who could be useful to her nephew among the selfish genus of rich relations, the Vicomtesse de Beauseant was the least likely to refuse.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 23Chapter 1 am by birth a Genevese, and my family is one of the I most distinguished of that republic.
-- My father and the rest of the family being obliged to attend as witnesses, I accompa-nied them to the court.
-- Often, after the rest of the family had retired for the night, I took the boat and passed many hours upon the water.
-- I found that the youth spent a great part of each day in collecting wood for the family fire, and during the night I often took his tools, the use of which I quickly discovered, and brought home firing suffi-cient for the consumption of several days.
-- He was de-scended from a good family in France, where he had lived for many years in affluence, respected by his superiors and beloved by his equals.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Their family had more money, more horses, more slaves thanany one else in the County, but the boys had less grammar than most of their poor Cracker neighbors.
-- She was his oldest child and, nowthat Gerald knew there would be no more sons to follow the three who lay in the family burying ground, he had driftedinto a habit of treating her in a man-to-man manner which she found most pleasant.
-- "The Wilkes are different fromany of our neighbors different from any family I ever knew.
-- And as for changing a Wilkes God's nightgown, daughter!The whole family is that way, and they'vealways been that way.
-- Why, marrying the likes of themselves, marrying the cousins their family always expects them to marry."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- GREAT EXPECTATIONSChapter IMy father's family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip.
-- I give Pirrip as my father's family name, on the authority of his tombstone and my sister,--Mrs. Joe Gargery, who married the blacksmith.
-- Chapter VIIAt the time when I stood in the churchyard reading the family tombstones, I had just enough learning to be able to spell them out.
-- "Whatever family opinions, or whatever the world's opinions, on that subject may be, Pip, your sister is," Joe tapped the top bar with the poker after every word following, "a-fine-figure--of--a--woman!"
-- "No," said Joe, "it's a kind of family name what he gave himself when a infant, and is called by."
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Although Mr. Gulliver was born in Nottinghamshire, where his father dwelt, yet I have heard him say his family came from Oxfordshire; to confirm which, I have observed in the churchyard at Banbury in that county, several tombs and monuments of the Gullivers.
-- The pension from each family for the education and entertainment of a child, upon failure of due payment, is levied by the emperor's officers.
-- The emperor and royal family came out of the palace; I lay down on my face to kiss his hand, which he very graciously gave me: so did the empress and young princes of the blood.
-- My eldest uncle John had left me an estate in land, near Epping, of about thirty pounds a-year; and I had a long lease of the Black Bull in Fetter-Lane, which yielded me as much more; so that I was not in any danger of leaving my family upon the par-ish.
-- Some natural ne-cessities required me to get down; I durst not presume to call; and if I had, it would have been in vain, with such a voice as mine, at so great a distance from the room where I lay to the kitchen where the family kept.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Dumb with amazement, Mr. Gradgrind crossed to the spot where his family was thus disgraced, laid his hand upon each erring child, and said:'Louisa!!Thomas!!'
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