family n. 1.家,家庭;〔集合詞〕家庭成員,家屬,子女;親屬。 2.氏族,家族,親族。 3.〔美國〕閣員,(特指國務(wù)部的)同僚;派別。 4.門第,家系;〔英國〕門閥,名門。 5.人種,種族,民族。 6.系;族;科;【語言學(xué)】語族。 7.〔美俚〕(黑手黨等犯罪集團的)行動小組。 His family is an old one. 他的家庭是一個舊式家庭。 My family are all well. 我全家都好。 the President 's official family 〔美國〕總統(tǒng)的全體閣僚。 the Indo-European family 印歐語族。 the Teutonic family 條頓民族。 the chromium family 【化學(xué)】鉻族。 the Kantian family 康德學(xué)派。 the cat family 【動物;動物學(xué)】貓科。 a happy family 1. 幸福家庭。 2. 相安無事處于同一牢籠的不同類動物。 in a family way 1. 像家人一樣隨便,不拘形式地。 2. 懷孕。 in the family way 〔美國〕懷孕。 of (good) family 出身門第很高的。 run in the family (性格特征等)為一家所共有,世代相傳 (A gift for music runs in that family . 那一家人人有音樂天才)。 adj. 家庭的,家族的。 a family likeness 親屬之間的相似,隱約的相似。
old adj. (-er; -est; 表示兄弟姊妹關(guān)系時用 elder; eldest)。 1.老,上了年紀的,年老的 (opp. young); 衰老的,老邁的;老成的;老練的;熟練的。 2.…歲的;…久的。 3.古時的,古代的 (opp. modern); 古老的,積年的,陳年的,多年來的,舊交的;熟悉的。 4.(opp. new) 過去的,過時的;舊的;破舊的;用舊了的;舊式的,陳腐的。 5.〔口語〕親愛的,親密的。 6.〔口語〕極好的〔通常用以加強其他形容詞語氣〕。 grow [get] old 老起來,上年紀。 How old is he 他多大歲數(shù)? He is eighteen years old. 他十八歲。 old in diplomacy 擅長外交。 an old bachelor 老獨身漢。 old gaolbird 老囚犯;慣犯。 an old offender 慣犯。 an old friend 老朋友。 an old Oxonian 牛津大學(xué)的老校友。 old fashions 舊式。 old iron 廢鐵。 old jokes 陳腐的俏皮話。 old wine 陳年老酒。 the old country [home] 故鄉(xiāng)。 the old thing (老)家伙。 I had a fine old time.〔口語〕過得非常愉快。 an old head on young shoulders 少年老成。 any old thing 〔俚語〕隨便什么(東西)。 for an old song 非常便宜地。 for old sake's sake 因老交情。 in old time 在從前。 never too old to learn 活到老學(xué)到老;學(xué)無止境。 of old standing 多年的,由來已久的。 as old as the hill 很老。 old familiar faces 老相識(的人們)。 O- Lady of Threadneedle Street 〔英國〕 Bank of England 的別名。 old man of the sea 死纏著不走的人。 old ten in the hundred 高利貸。 the good old times (老人們所懷念的)過去。 the old gentleman =the old one 〔口語〕老頭兒,父親。 the old year 去年,就要過去的一年。 n. 1.古時,往時。 2.…歲的人[動物]。 3.[集合詞]老年的人們;〔the old〕古物;令人懷念的往事[風(fēng)俗(等)]。 the men of old 古代的人們。 four-year-olds 四歲的馬。 as of old 仍舊,照舊。 from of old 自昔,早就。 in days of old 從前,以前。 of old 從前的,往時的;從前是,(老早)以前是;自古,從老早以前。 old and young=y(tǒng)oung and old 無論老少。
One afternoon i was going through some old family photos when i ran across one of three little boys on the front veranda of their modest house 一天下午,我翻看家里的舊照片時,突然看見一張站在自家簡陋房子前廊上的三個小男孩的照片。
All i knew was that each quarter , my father s solicitor , an old family friend , handed over seven hundred and fifty francs against my signature 我所知道的只不過是每一季度,我父親的公證人我家的一位世交都要憑我一張收據(jù)交給我七百五十法郎。
Even the good old family to use a favourite phrase of a late local worthy had no aroma for him unless there were good new resolutions in its representatives 在他看來,即使“古老世家”使用近來故去的一個本地名人的字眼兒也沒有了香味,除非它的后人能有新的良好變化。
Vincente and marco obispo look out across guadalajara ' s arid plains and i can see them struggling to recreate the techni coloured haven of their old family photographs 文森特和馬可?奧比斯珀放眼眺望瓜達拉哈拉干旱的平原,我能看出來,他們正在重新構(gòu)筑他們老照片上多彩的天堂。
It is his guess that a hidden closet in some old english country home may have turned up a real skeleton , clear proof of some old family shame or crime 他的猜想是:在英格蘭鄉(xiāng)村一古老的房子中的一個暗柜里,突然發(fā)現(xiàn)一個真正的骷髏,這正是這個家庭過去恥辱或者犯罪的明顯的證據(jù)。
And from what i heard , joseph contributed much to his deterioration , by a narrow - minded partiality which prompted him to flatter and pet him , as a boy , because he was the head of the old family 據(jù)我所聽到的,他之所以變壞,約瑟夫出力不少,出于一種狹隘的偏愛,約瑟夫在他還是小孩的時候就捧他,嬌慣他,因為他是這古老家庭的主人。
If they are no longer living in the old family home , they are pictured as delighted residents of retirement communities with names like leisure world and sun city , with lots of grass , clean air and fun 假如他們不再住在原來的家里,他們就被描繪成退休老人社區(qū)的快活的居民,這些社區(qū)有著像悠閑世界、太陽城一類的名字,綠草如茵、空氣清新、其樂無窮。
On the other hand , in the old age society the old person lived alone and " the pure old family " composed by the old persons already in fact to form next generation or a one after next generation of flaw completely , thus constituted " the old age dink " 另一方面,老齡社會中的獨居老人及完全由老人組成的“純老家庭”已經(jīng)事實上形成了下一代或者下下代的缺失,從而構(gòu)成了“老齡丁克” 。
Mr clare , said the dairyman emphatically , is one of the most rebellest rozums you ever knowed - not a bit like the rest of his family ; and if there s one thing that he do hate more than another tis the notion of what s called a old family “克萊爾先生, ”奶牛場老板強調(diào)說, “他是一個你從來沒聽說過的最有反抗精神的怪人一點兒也不像他家里的其他人有一件事他是最討厭不過的,那就是什么古老世家了。