06. Blood Is Thicker than Water 血浓于水西安o培训
Word Storm |
surname\family name | 姓 |
nuclear family | 核心家庭 |
immediate family | 直系亲人 |
kinship | 血缘关系 |
blood relationship | 血缘 |
kinsmen by blood | 血亲 |
stock | 门第、血统 |
of noble birth | 贵族出身 |
of humble birth | 平民出身 |
ancestor | 祖先 |
the power of the dreamdescendant | 学校哪里有插花培训后代、晚辈 |
progeny | 后裔 |
inherit | 继承 |
family tree | 家谱 |
identical twins | 同卵双生 |
fraternal twins | 异卵双生 |
legitimate child | 婚生子（女） |
illegitimate child | 非婚生子（女） |
bastard | 私生子（女） |
brotherhood | polaroid手足情 |
half brother/sister | 同父异母（同母异父）兄弟/姐妹 |
single-child policy | 独生子女政策 |
complete opposites | rush是什么药 完全相反的 |
biological father | 生父 |
yearn for attention | 渴望被关注 |
envy | 羡慕 |
step-dad | 继父 |
be meant to | 有意要, 打算 |
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Kaitlyn: How many people are there in your family?
Jack: My immediate family is quite small. It’s just my older step-brother, my mom, my step-dad and me. How about you?
K: I have a large family. I have 3 elder sisters, my twin sister, a younger brother and my parents.
J: I didn’t know you were a twin! Are you identical or fraternal?
K: We’re identical. I mean, we look exactly the same, but we are complete opposites when it comes to everything el!
J: Interesting! It must be great having a twin sister. Are you best friends, too?
K: We ud to be really clo, but all that changed once she moved to Shanghai. How about your family? You didn’t mention to your biological father.
J: I don’t know much about him. He died when I was just a baby. Even though I don’t hav
e a blood relationship with my step-father and step-brother, I consider them to be my real family.
K: What about your step-brother’s mother? Does he keep in touch with her?
J: No, she also died when my step-brother was a little. My mother and my step-father met each other shortly after my father died and became good friends. They ended up getting married a few years later.
K: Sounds like it was meant to be.
J: Have you ever thought about having children, K?
K: My husband and I have thought about it, but we’ve decided not to have any. They’re just too expensive. Besides, with all the news about global warming on the news lately, who knows what kind of world we’ll have in the future. What about you?
J: Well, I’ve always wanted to have lots of children. Growing up with only one brother, I always felt a bit lonely. What do you think about families with only one child?
liberating
K: For me, growing up in a big family always made me yearn for attention. I always wanted to be an only child so that I could always do what I wanted and so that I wouldn’t ever have to share.
J: Don’t you think you would miss having other people around?
K: No way! I spent 20 years of my life with relatives around me 24-7. You know, I don’t think I’ve ever actually spent any time by mylf in my parents’ home. What do you think of the one-child policy in china?
J: If China didn’t have such a policy, can you imagine how many people there would be in China now?
K: That’s true. But as a woman, I’m glad that even though I don’t want any children, I at least have a choice in how many children I have. On the other hand, I can’t imagine what China would be like if there weren’t a one-child policy!
J: Do you think most families with many children envy or feel sorry for other families with
only one child?
K: I don’t know what other people think, but I, for one, envy only children!
07. Huge Family
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relation= relatives | 亲戚 |
kinsmen by affinity | 姻亲 |
extended-family | 数代同堂的大家庭 |
step- | 继 |
adopt | fault 收养 |
take after | 长得像、性格像 |
reunion | 团聚 |
niece | 侄女、外甥女 |
nephew | 侄子、外甥 |
sibling | 亲兄弟姐妹 |
cousin | 表（堂）兄弟姐妹 |
patriarch | 族长 |
在职研究生考试真题head of the houhold | 一家之主 |
foster parents indifferent | 养父母 |
black sheep of the family | 败家子、不孝子 |
financially independent | 经济独立 |
support a family | 维持一家生计 |
retirement home | 养老院 |
a record of ancestors | 祖先的档案、族谱 |
generation | 一代 |
be critical of | 不满 |
decade | 十年 |
under sb's roof | 住在某人家 |
rare | 罕见的 |
respectable | 可敬的, 高尚的, 值得尊敬的 |
respect | 关系 |
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Sophia: Does your family have a record of your ancestors?
Nee: Sure. My mom has been working on our family tree for years. She’s always updating it.
S: Do you have a copy of your family tree in your hou? I’d love to e it.
N: I can show it to you, if you like. I think it goes back about 8 generations so far.
S: That’s amazing! Do you have a large extended family?
N: I’ve got 30 cousins on my mom’s side and 10 cousins on my dad’s side.
S: Are you very clo to your first-cousins?
N: The ones that are my age are clo relatives. Now that I’m older, I don’t spend as much time with them as I ud to, so I don’t know my younger cousins as well as the older ones.
S: I e. Who’s the head of your houhold?
N: It’s definitely my mother. And, her mother is definitely the matriarch of the bigger family.
S: That’s interesting. What’s your grandmother think of your step-mother?
