She was very deaf, and Boyce had difficulty in making himself understood. "The family is in the country," was all she would say. "The family will not be home till September." "But there is some one living here?" shouted Boyce. "_I_ live here," she said with dignity, put- ting back a wisp of dirty gray hair behind her ear. "It is my house. I sublet to the family." "What family?" But the old creature was not communica- tive. "The family that lives here," she said. "Then who plays the piano in this house?" roared Boyce.英文原著 · 《The Shape of Fear》
"The family, monsieur--does such a thing exist? I decline to recognize as a family a knot of individuals bidden by society to divide the property after the death of father and mother, and to go their separate ways. A family means a temporary association of persons brought together by no will of their own, dissolved at once by death. Our laws have broken up homes and estates, and the old family tradition handed down from generation to generation. I see nothing but wreck and ruin about me."英文原著 · 《A Woman of Thirty》
She had been very fond of the cat at one time, but its recent conduct had alienated her affection. We children buried it in the garden under the mulberry tree, but the old lady insisted that there should be no tombstone, not even a mound raised. So it lies there, unhonoured, in a drunkard's grave. I also told him of another cat our family had once possessed. She was the most motherly thing I have ever known. She was never happy without a family. Indeed, I cannot remember her when she hadn't a family in one stage or another. She was not very particular what sort of a family it was.英文原著 · 《Novel Notes》
The free family lived in a great house--in the hendre ("old homestead") in winter, and in the mountain havoty ("summer house") in summer. The sides of the house were made of giant forest trees, their boughs meeting at the top and supporting the roof tree. The fire burnt in the middle of the hall. Round the walls the family beds were arranged. The family was governed by the head of the household (penteulu), whose word was law.英文原著 · 《A Short History of Wales》
The home fireside was a scene of cheerfulness. And most of our family have been blest with this sunny gift. Indeed, a merrier family circle I have never seen. There were twelve persons round the table to be provided for, besides two servants. This required, on my mother's part, a great deal of management, as every housekeeper will know. Yet everything was provided and paid for within the year's income. The family result of my father and mother's happy marriage was four sons and seven daughters. Patrick, the eldest, was born in 1787.英文原著 · 《An Autobiography》
They don't like anything that anybody else does. There's no pleasing 'em. And she thought the Drunkard's Family was "kind o' low." It wasn't either. It was fine, and taught a great moral lesson. I told her so, but she said it was low, just the same. She thought the Temperance Family was nice, but it wasn't anywhere near as good as the Drunkard's Family. Why, let me tell you. The Drunkard's Wife was in a ragged calico dress, and her eye was all black and blue, where he had hit her the week before.英文原著 · 《Back Home》
No, I'm offended No, I'm offended by the idea of paying for a family legacy when the family doesn't really act like a family.美剧 · 《Billions》
You're family to me, he's family to you, and you don't invest money with family.美剧 · 《Suits》