.one-parent 'family n[C] a family in which there is only one parent who lives with the children = single parent family
1. Eric had been the eldest son of the family, very much older than his two brothers. 埃里克是这家长子。年龄比他两个弟弟大很多,
2. Even though friends and family support the idea of going, it is difficult to say good-bye at this moment. 即使朋友们及家人支持他们出国留学, 但在此时此刻说声再见却是很困难的。
3. Even young students who plan on staying in the United States just long enough to finish two semesters of high school have difficulty finding a host family. 甚至那些计划在美国完成两个学期中学课程的年轻学生也很难找到接待家庭。
4. Every family needs to have earthquake emergency plans. 每个家庭都需要制定地震救急计划。
5. C.You decide the fairest thing is not to celebrate with the family at all; it's less trouble. c.你得出结论,不和家人一起过节最公平,这样麻烦较少。
6. By comparison, nearly half of male high-school students express their preference for a traditional, male-headed, one provider, nuclear family, where the wife stays home as mother and housewife. 与此相比, 几乎有一半男中学生表达了他们对传统的、以男人为家长的、只有一个人养家糊口的核心家庭的偏爱,在这种家庭里妻子作为母亲和家庭主妇呆在家里。
7. Based partly at a community centre and partly in family homes, the Otherwise Club includes some 35 families around north London. 这所俱乐部学校,部分以社区中心为基地,部分以家庭为基地,由伦敦北部周围35户家庭组成。
8. Both these women — mothers of the bride and groom — would have insisted they wanted only the best for their children but they defined "the best" as staying home to help support the family. 这两个女人就是新娘和新郎的母亲,她们本该说些希望自己的孩子生活美满的话,可她们心中的“美满”,却是让孩子们留在家里帮助维持全家生计。
9. Both marriage and family involve long-term obligations and responsibility for shared care, not just the search of happiness, that hollow goal of the modern age. 婚姻和家庭意味着互相关爱的长期义务与责任,而不仅仅是寻求幸福,这一摩登时代的空洞目标。
10. But changes came to the family when I was thirteen, and I was sent to school in Jacksonville. 但我13岁时,家里发生了变故,我被送到杰克逊维尔的学校去了。