【日常生活英語口語100情景】今日話題：家族成員

Words Storm 單詞風暴

Relation= relative 親戚

kinsmen by affinity 姻親

step-  繼的 

ex-前任 

adopt收養

take after 長得像，性格像

reunion 團聚

family tree家譜 

mother-in-law岳母/婆婆

patriarch 族長

head of the household一家之主

foster parents養父母

financially independent經濟獨立 

support a family 維持一家的生計

retirement home養老院

black sheep of the family 敗家子，不肖子

cousin表(堂)兄弟姐妹

nephew侄子，外甥

Useful Expressions

China no longer has families where fourgenerations live under the same roof.

中國現在很少再有四世同堂的大家聽了。

Like father, like son. 有其父必有其子

Toula has a huge family with 27 cousins.托拉有個非常龐大的家庭，光堂兄弟姊妹就有27個

First cousins are close relatives. 堂表兄弟是近親。

It was difficult at first. I think mystep-mother was often quite critical of me.

起初的日子很難熬，總覺得繼母對我的要求過于嚴苛。

Poor Jason, who is always the black sheepof the family, is always in disgrace

可憐的杰森，他是這一家的不孝之子，總是不受人尊重。

Do you get along with your in-laws? 你和你的姻親相處得好嗎？

Some kinds of retirement homes will provideyou with services depending on your amount of needed help. 有些養老院可以根據你的需要提供相應的服務。

Mr. Smith is the only person who has afulltime job in his family. So he is the head of household.

史密斯先生是家里唯一有全職工作的人。所以他是一家之主。

I have to work hard because I need tosupport the whole family.

為了維持一家人的生計，我必須努力工作。

Someone isn't grown up until age 26,probably with financial independence.

也許等到了26歲能實現經濟獨立，這個人才算真正地長大。

We had our big family get-together onChristmas Eve.

我們全家人歡聚在一起慶祝圣誕夜

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