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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I thought of your family when I was passing through Berlin.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He married into the family of Adrastus, and his house was one of great abundance, for he had large estates of rich corn-growing land, with much orchard ground as well, and he had many sheep; moreover he excelled all the Argives in the use of the spear.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The motto of all the mongoose family is 'Run and find out,' and Rikki-tikki was a true mongoose.
-- 'There are more things to find out about in this house,' he said to himself, 'than all my family could find out in all their lives.
-- That bite par-alyzed Karait, and Rikki-tikki was just going to eat him up from the tail, after the custom of his family at dinner, when he remembered that a full meal makes a slow mongoose, and if he wanted all his strength and quickness ready, he must keep himself thin.
-- Is the family of Toomai of the Elephants to be trodden underfoot in the dirt of a Ked-dah?
-- 'Never you mind my family on my father's side,' said Billy angrily, for every mule hates to be reminded that his father was a donkey.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Know you anything of your own family at that time?'
-- 'Where are the blossoms of those summers! fallen, one by one; so all of my family departed, each in his turn, to the land of spirits.
-- The brothers and family of the Mohican formed our war party; and you see before you all that are now left of his race.'
-- You see before you a chief of the great Mohican Sagamores!Once his family could chase their deer over tracts of country wider than that which belongs to the Albany Patteroon, without crossing brook or hill that was not their own; but what is left of their descendant?
-- Not only the dangers through which they had passed, but those which still impended above them, appeared to be momentarily forgotten, in the soothing indulgence of such a family meeting.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Before the barn door strutted the gallant cock, that pattern of a husband, a war-rior and a fine gentleman, clapping his burnished wings and crowing in the pride and gladness of his heart, some-times tearing up the earth with his feet, and then generously calling his ever-hungry family of wives and children to en-joy the rich morsel which he had discovered.
-- Nay, his busy fancy already realized his hopes, and presented to him the blooming Katrina, with a whole family of children, mounted on the top of a wagon loaded with household trumpery, with pots and kettles dangling beneath; and he beheld himself bestriding a pacing mare, with a colt at her heels, setting out for Kentucky, Tennessee, or the Lord knows where!
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs. Strickland was taking her family to the coast of Norfolk, so that the children might have the sea and her husband golf.
-- I was perhaps a little lonely, and it was with a touch of envy that I thought of the pleasant family life of which I had had a glimpse.
-- The Stricklands were an average family in the middle class.
-- Mrs. Strickland was the daughter of an Indian civilian, who on his retirement had settled in the depths of the country, but it was his habit every August to take his family to Eastbourne for change of air; and it was here, when she was twenty, that she met Charles Strickland.
-- "She was a governess in the family of some Roman prince, and the son of the house seduced her.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These trees still retained their verdure, notwithstanding the advanced season, for they belonged to the family of "coniferae," which is spread over all the regions of the globe, from northern climates to the tropics.
-- Herbert found some new ones, among others some which Pencroft called "sham leeks"; for, in spite of their size, they were of the same liliaceous family as the onion, chive, shallot, or asparagus.
-- Happily for Gideon Spilett, the animal in question did not belong to the redoubtable family of the plantigrades.
-- But they had not gone half a mile when from a thicket a whole family of quadrupeds, who had made a home there, disturbed by Top, rushed forth into the open country.
-- "My boy," replied the sailor, bending over the trap and drawing out one of these representatives of the family of sus by the little appendage which served it as a tail.
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