家庭
A:Tell me about your family, Simon. Are you from a big family?
西蒙,给我们讲讲你们家的事。你来自一个大家庭吗?
B:No, my immediate family is quite small. There are only five of us. My parents, my younger brother and my younger sister. But my parents both come from large families.
不,我们自己的直系家庭相当小,只有五口人,(包括)我的父母,弟弟和妹妹。但是我父母都来自大家庭。
A:How many people are in your extended family?
你的大家庭中有多少人呢?
B:There are too many to count. I suppose, well over 100 people.
太多了,数不过来。我想有一百多人吧。
A:Do you get to see your family often?
你常和家里人见过面吗?
B:I see my immediate family every weekend, and I see my extended family about once or twice a year.We usually see each other for Christmas, Easter, and other big celebrations, like weddings.
我每个周末都和直系小家庭成员见面。我一年中能见到其他大家庭的成员一或俩次。我们经常在圣诞节,复活节和其他大的庆祝活动,如婚礼上见面。
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A:Have you ever been to a family reunion?
你参加过家庭聚会吗。
B:Actually, I have been to one, but it wasn’t mine! It was one of my friends’. He didn’t want to be theonly boy there, so I went with him to keep him company. This was a long time ago, of course.
我倒是去过一次。但不是我自己家的聚会,是我的一个朋友家的聚会。他不想成为聚会上的唯一男孩,所以我去陪他。当然了,这也是很久以前的事了。
A:Are many of your relative divorced?
你的亲属中有很多人离婚吗?
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B:Let me think. I believe it’s just my one uncle. He’s always been a rebel. My grandmother was very religious, so most of my relatives were too scared to get divorced!
让我想一下。我想只有我的一个叔叔离了婚。他一直是个叛逆者。我奶奶是个很虔诚的教徒,所以我的大多数亲属都不敢离婚!
A:Do you have any relatives who are single mothers?
你的亲属中有单身母亲吗?
younger的解释
B:I have just one-her father is the one who got divorced. Their family is sort of the black sheep of our extended family.
我只有一个亲属是单身母亲。她的父亲也离了婚。他们家是我们大家庭中的另类。
1. 较年轻:在放射定年法还沒发明之前,地质学常用的定年法,是相对(比较)(relative time)定年法,用比较的方式来決定岩石形成的先讲顺序,先形成的岩石比较老(older),讲形成的岩石就比较新、比较年轻(younger).
2. 更年轻的:older 年龄更大的 | younger 更年轻的 | bigger 更大的
3. younger的反义词
3. 年纪较小者:youngberry 杨氏草莓 | younger 年纪较小者 | youngish 颇年轻的
younger的反义词
adj
1. used of the younger of two persons of the same name especially used to distinguish a son from his father
e.g. John Junior
John Smith, Jr.
Synonym: jr.