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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The harpooner's family was originally from Quebec, and was already a tribe of hardy fishermen when this town belonged to France.
-- A light network of marine plants, of that inexhaustible family of seaweeds of which more than two thousand kinds are known, grew on the surface of the water.
-- That day being Christmas Day, Ned Land seemed to regret sorely the non-celebration of "Christmas," the family fete of which Protestants are so fond.
-- Amongst large-winged birds, carried a long distance from all lands and resting upon the waves from the fatigue of their flight, I saw some magnificent albatrosses, uttering discordant cries like the braying of an ass, and birds belonging to the family of the long-wings.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was crowded now with the family and the wedding guests.
-- "Laura won't have brought such a fool into the family as Lottie did."
-- Does it hurt your sense of the family dignity?"
-- They were laughing at their mother, who, dressed in a summer material of black and purple stripes, and wearing a hat of purple straw, was setting forth with much more of the shyness and trepidation of a young girl than her daughters ever felt, walking demurely beside her husband, who, as usual, looked rather crumpled in his best suit, as if he were the father of a young family and had been holding the baby whilst his wife got dressed.
-- Indoors the family was all sitting up, waiting.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One stop brought us into the family sitting room, without any introductory lobby or passage: they call it here 'the house' preeminently.
-- I began to feel unmistakably out of place in that pleasant family circle.
-- Having approached this structure, I looked inside, and perceived it to be a singular sort of oldfashioned couch, very conveniently designed to obviate the necessity for every member of the family having a room to himself.
-- I fancied the discontent of age and disease arose from his family disagreements; as he would have it that it did: really, you know, sir, it was in his sinking frame.
-- In the morning he rose early; and, as it was a holiday, carried his ill humour on to the moors; not re appearing till the family were departed for church.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This inquiry involved the respected lady in rather a delicate position, for she certainly had been an active party in making her daughter Mrs Quilp, and, besides, it was not supporting the family credit to encourage the idea that she had married a man whom nobody else would have.
-- 'Gentlemen, I'll give you, if you please, Success to the ancient family of the Swivellers, and good luck to Mr Richard in particular Mr Richard, gentlemen,' said Dick with great emphasis, 'who spends all his money on his friends and is Bah!
-- 'I must say for her that there's not any very strong family likeness between her and you.'
-- 'A family and an annual income of nothing, to keep 'em on,' said Richard Swiveller after some reflection.
-- Nor was this the only start Mr Swiveller had of the market-gardener, for determining to show the family what quality of man they trifled with, and influenced perhaps by his late libations, he performed such feats of agility and such spins and twirls as filled the company with astonishment, and in particular caused a very long gentleman who was dancing with a very short scholar, to stand quite transfixed by wonder and admiration.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The commander was a liberal-minded man, entirely absorbed with the struggles, and knew nothing about his wretched family life.
-- There was the pleasure of domestic life, which made it possible to lead a moral life, as he called married life; then, and principally, the family and children would infuse his present aimless life with a purpose.
-- "What is your surname--your family name?"
-- At the head of the table sat old Korchagin, on his left the physician; on his right, a visitor, Ivan Ivanovich Kolosoff, an ex-district commander, and now a bank manager, who was a friend of the family, and of liberal tendencies; further to the left was Miss Rader, governess to Missy's four-year-old sister, with the little girl herself; then to the right, Missy's only brother, Peter, a high-school pupil, on account of whose forthcoming examinations the entire family remained in the city, and his tutor, also a student; then again to the left, Katherine Alexeievna, a forty-year-old girl Slavophile; opposite to her was Michael Sergeievich, or Misha Telegin, Missy's cousin, and at the foot of the table, Missy herself, and beside her, on the table, lay an extra cover.
-- Nekhludoff was one of these friends, not only because he was considered a clever young man, but also because his mother was a close friend of the family and he was a desirable match for Missy.
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