1. “The idea that the family is a stable and orderly unit in which father serves as economic provider and mother serves as emotional care giver is a myth,” said Judith Bruce, a leading author of the study.
    这份研究报告的一位主要撰稿人朱迪斯·布鲁斯说："认为家庭是个稳定有序的单位、父亲是经济支柱、母亲是情感给予者的观点已经不现实了。

2. B.You decide you'll spend important holidays with family members you like best and ask others to join you for lesser holidays.
    b.你决定和自己最喜欢的家庭成员一起度过重要的假期，请其他人在不太重要的假期里与你相聚。

3. "Now name the members of the Imperial Russian Family."
    “说出俄帝国皇室成员的名字。”

4. Reporters kept pressing for interviews so lawyers had to be employed to act as spokesmen for the family at press conferences.
    由于记者纷纷要求会见，他们不得不请了律师充当他们家的发言人举行记者招待会。

5. Repeated references (提到) to the staff as "family" only emphasize the feeling of being left alone and having been told a lie.
    反复称全体雇员为"一家子人"只会使你更感到自己被遗弃后孤零零的感觉，以及被人骗了的感觉。

6. Result: the closest thing we have to a global family tree.
    他们的工作结果相当于一份全球家谱。

7. Older family members, who understood that the goal of marriage was to produce healthy sons, made the all-important decision of marriage.
    家里的长辈们认为结婚的目的就是要生下健康的儿子，因此有关婚姻的重要决定都是由他们作出的。

8. On the plane flying home, with Laurie in my arms, I thought about mothers and daughters, and the four generations of the family that I know most intimately.
    在回家的飞机上，我抱着劳里，想到了所有的母亲和女儿，想到了我最熟悉的家庭中的四代女人。

9. Old stockings have always been perceived as a challenge by my family.
    旧长筒袜在我家一直都被视为一种大有可为的东西。

10. 12.Every holiday there is a serious argument in the family about whether to visit your parents or those of your spouse.
    12.每个假期，家里总要为该去看望你的父母还是你配偶的父母而发生激烈的争吵。