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Kinfolk are your relatives — the people you belong to by blood or marriage. The line in some dictionaries just says “”, and that is the same word with an older extra s; both mean the family group. It is not the everyday word in most places. People usually say family, relatives, or folks. Kinfolk sounds a little old, rural, or story-like. You still hear it in folk songs, novels, and in some parts of the United States, especially the South, where it can feel warm, like “my people”. It is never a rude word. Kin already means family; folk means people. Put together they mean your people, your family group. You do not usually use it for one person.
親戚、親族(較文雅或鄉下口吻;日常多說家人、親戚)
原始詞典資料1 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。
kinfolknoun
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Relatives, relations.
- ‘You have kinfolks here though. Women. That used to live in this house.’
- “Ah, woe is me! Alas, for my kingdom and my kinfolk!”
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。