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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the distance, drifting from south to north, carried along by the impetuous torrent, they saw trees torn up by the roots, twisted branches, roofs torn off, destroyed RANCHOS, planks of sheds stolen by the deluge from ESTANCIAS, carcasses of drowned animals, blood-stained skins, and on a shaky tree a complete family of jaguars, howling and clutching hold of their frail raft.
-- "I am always waiting for those who come," said the Irishman; and then, in a solemn voice, while the family and domestics reverently stood, he repeated the BENEDICITE.
-- He left Dundalk, where he was starving, and came with his family to Australia, landed at Adelaide, where, refusing employment as a miner, he got engaged on a farm, and two months afterward commenced clearing ground on his own account.
-- His family prospered, and his farm also.
-- All the family met him, ready to give their best help.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was just such a stick as the old-fashioned family practitioner used to carry dignified, solid, and reassuring.
-- So your grave, middle-aged family prac-titioner vanishes into thin air, my dear Watson, and there emerges a young fellow under thirty, amiable, unambitious, absent-minded, and the possessor of a favourite dog, which I should describe roughly as being larger than a terrier and smaller than a mastiff.'
-- 'This family paper was committed to my care by Sir Charles Baskerville, whose sudden and tragic death some three months ago created so much excitement in Devonshire.
-- Learn then from this story not to fear the fruits of the past, but rather to be circumspect in the future, that those foul passions whereby our family has suffered so grievously may not again be loosed to our undoing.
-- 'Such is the tale, my sons, of the coming of the hound which is said to have plagued the family so sorely ever since.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Karamsin must mention the family name, of course, in his historybut as an individual one never hears of any Prince Muishkin nowadays.'
-- Nastasia Phillpovna's family name is Barashkoff I know, you see-and she is a very well known lady, indeed, and comes of a good family, too.
-- While still young the wife had been able to make important friends among the aristocracy, partly by virtue of her family descent, and part-ly by her own exertions; while, in after life, thanks to their wealth and to the position of her husband in the service, she took her place among the higher circles as by right.
-- Of course they were only Epanchins, but their mother's family was noble; they might expect considerable fortunes; their father had hopes of attaining to very high rank indeed in his country's service-all of which was satis-factory.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Her family doesn't amount to anything, does it?"
-- During the last year or two the expenses of the family seemed a large thing.
-- "A season family ticket costs one hundred and fifty dollars."
-- He did not mind giving his family a fair share of all that he earned, but he did not like to be forced to provide against his will.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It swore every boy to stick to the band, and never tell any of the secrets; and if anybody done anything to any boy in the band, whichev-er boy was ordered to kill that person and his family must do it, and he mustn't eat and he mustn't sleep till he had killed them and hacked a cross in their breasts, which was the sign of the band.
-- They talked it over, and they was going to rule me out, because they said every boy must have a family or some-body to kill, or else it wouldn't be fair and square for the others.
-- None of the family couldn't before THEY died.
-- They all asked me questions, and I told them how pap and me and all the family was living on a little farm down at the bottom of Arkansaw, and my sister Mary Ann run off and got married and never was heard of no more, and Bill went to hunt them and he warn't heard of no more, and Tom and Mort died, and then there warn't nobody but just me and pap left, and he was just trimmed down to nothing, on ac-count of his troubles; so when he died I took what there was left, because the farm didn't belong to us, and started up the river, deck passage, and fell overboard; and that was how I come to be here.
-- One was a big family Bible full of pictures.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I knew a whole family of Pinocchi once--Pinocchio the father, Pinocchia the mother, and Pinocchi the children-- and they were all lucky.
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