family 的意思是:
1. 家，家庭
2. 家庭成员及关系密切的亲戚
3. 家族，家世；世系
4.（动植物的）科；具有相同特徵和同一来源的一组事物（如语言）
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子女
一：复数： families
二：例句:
1:Do you know the next famliy door?
你认识那户人家吗。
2:I have a good family.
我有一个幸福的家庭。
3:The family now live in shanghai.
那家人现在居住在上海。
4:"If you engage in political affairs, you cannot expect to have much time for your family."
如果你从政的话,就不能指望再会有许多时间和家人在一起了。
5:He was born of a working - class family.His father was a humble dustman,one of Nature's gentlemen.
他出身于工人阶级家庭。他爸爸是个地位低下的清洁工人，对人客客气气，遇事替人着想。
6:"If you kept me for no reason, it would do you no good and would break up my family."
"如今无故平空留下我,于你又无益,反叫我们骨肉分离"
7:"Work keeps me so busy that I have no time for my family and friends, not to mention getting hitched and starting my own family.
"因公务而忙得没有和家人、老友话家常的闲功夫，更别说去经营感情、组织家庭。
8:"The writer, a Harvard law professor, comes from a prominent American family."
作者是哈佛大学法学院教授，来自一个极具声望的美国家庭。