喜樂美語

核心畫面

You can picture family as a small circle of people bound together by blood or by living life under one roof — parents and their children sitting around the same table. Everything else the word does is this circle stretched: wider in time, narrower to just the kids, or borrowed for any set of things that 'belong together' like one household.

可以想成一個小圈圈：靠血緣或同住一個屋簷下而綁在一起的人，最典型的就是父母帶著孩子圍在同一張桌子旁。family 後…更多收起可以想成一個小圈圈：靠血緣或同住一個屋簷下而綁在一起的人，最典型的就是父母帶著孩子圍在同一張桌子旁。family 後面所有的用法，幾乎都是把這個圈圈拉大、縮小、或借去描述「天生就該歸在一起」的一群東西。

原始詞典資料16 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

familynoun/ˈfæm(ɪ)li/

  • 1

    A group of people who are closely related to one another (by blood, marriage or adoption); kin; in particular, a set of parents and their children; an immediate family.

    • Our family lives in town.
    • To Jane, he could be only a man whose proposals she had refused, and whose merit she had undervalued; but to her own more extensive information, he was the person, to whom the whole family were indebted for the first of benefits, and whom she regarded herself with an interest, if not quite so tender, at least as reasonable and just, as what Jane felt for Bingley.
  • 2

    A group of people who are closely related to one another (by blood, marriage or adoption); kin; in particular, a set of parents and their children; an immediate family.

  • 3

    An extended family: a group of people who are related to one another by blood or marriage.

  • 4

    A nuclear family: a mother and father who are married and cohabiting and their child or children.

    • The cultural struggle is for the survival of family values against all manner of atheistic amorality.
    • We must preserve the family unit if we want to save civilisation!
  • 5

    Members of one's family collectively.

    • I have a lot of family in Australia.
    • He has a sister, but no other family.
  • 6

    A (close-knit) group of people related by blood, friendship, marriage, law, or custom, especially if they live or work together.

    • crime family, Mafia family
    • This is my fraternity family at the university.
  • 7

    slangLGBTA (close-knit) group of people related by blood, friendship, marriage, law, or custom, especially if they live or work together.

    • […]This is not your hallmark im Ames, Iowa. And there is “family” working there . . . no radar like gaydar, I always say.
  • 8

    Lineage, especially honorable or noble lineage.

    • Indeed, he married her for love. A whisper still goes about that she had not even 'family'; howbeit, Sir Leicester had so much family that perhaps he had enough and could dispense with any more.
另外 5 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    Any group or aggregation of things classed together as kindred or related from possessing in common characteristics which distinguish them from other things of the same order.

    • Doliracetam is a drug from the racetam family.
    • Because SCSI is actually a family of standards, each with its own cable and connector, matching cables and connectors to the appropriate SCSI “family member” is important.
  • 10

    biologynatural-sciencestaxonomyAny group or aggregation of things classed together as kindred or related from possessing in common characteristics which distinguish them from other things of the same order.

    • Magnolias belong to the family Magnoliaceae.
    • The closest affinities of the Jubulaceae are with the Lejeuneaceae. The two families share in common: a elaters usually 1-spiral, trumpet-shaped and fixed to the capsule valves, distally[…].
  • 11

    mathematicssciencesset-theoryAny group or aggregation of things classed together as kindred or related from possessing in common characteristics which distinguish them from other things of the same order.

    • Let #92;mathcalF be a family of subsets over S.
  • 12

    entertainmentlifestylemusicAny group or aggregation of things classed together as kindred or related from possessing in common characteristics which distinguish them from other things of the same order.

    • the brass family;  the violin family
  • 13

    human-scienceslinguisticssciencesAny group or aggregation of things classed together as kindred or related from possessing in common characteristics which distinguish them from other things of the same order.

    • the Indo-European family
    • the Afroasiatic family

familyadj/ˈfæm(ɪ)li/

  • 1

    Suitable for children and adults.

    • It's not good for a date, it's a family restaurant.
    • Some animated movies are not just for kids, they are family movies.
  • 2

    slangLGBTHomosexual.

    • I knew he was family when I first met him.

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    資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。