1. To get to know the heart that beat within Marx the scholar, you had to see him when he had closed his books and was surrounded by his family, or on Sunday evenings in the society of his friends.
    要了解马克思这位学者的性情，你还得看看在合上书本之后他和家人在一起的时候，或者星期天晚上他和朋友在一起的情况。

2. This was our family's cue to eat some and proclaim it the best she had ever made.
    这是我们家吃饭时的习惯, 意思是让大家尝一点, 并且还要说这道菜是妈妈做得最好的一次。

3. They're more comfortable being with fellow workers than with family and friends.
    与跟家人和朋友们在一起相比，他们觉得和同事们在一起感到更舒服自在。

4. They deny the excessive time they're devoting to work, and they rationalize that their schedule is for the family and essential to being promoted.
    他们否认自己在工作上花了太多的时间，他们自我辩解地说他们的工作是为了家庭，同时对升职也至关重要。

5. Those little things — reading mystery novels, playing volleyball, spending time with family and friends, playing with the dog, going fishing — may seem relatively insignificant means to a healthy end.
    那些小事情——如阅读神秘小说、打排球、花时间和家人及朋友一起、跟狗一起玩耍、去钓鱼——对实现健康的目的而言, 似乎是一些不太起眼的方法,

6. Those who like Victorian family houses and furniture might secretly welcome a return to more rigid social norms.
    那些喜欢维多利亚式家庭住宅和家具的人也许在心底里愿意恢复更为严格的社会规范。

7. Today people from the neighborhood, which is made up mostly of expensive one-family homes with the exception of the two apartment houses near the railroad station, find it difficult to explain why they didn't call the police.
    该住宅区的居民多住在豪华的独门独户别墅，只有火车站附近有两幢公寓楼。他们都感到很难解释自己当初为何没有报警。

8. The real Ken, who died in 1994, was disgusted by the doll that made his family famous.
    真正的肯于1994年去世。他对令自己全家名扬天下的娃娃极为厌恶。

9. They took offense to my statement that a family consists of a husband, a wife and children, they said.
    她们称对我所说的家庭由夫妻和子女组成的观点感到不快。

10. They, as a group of single women, were best friends, supported one another, and defined one another as "family".
    她们这个群体，个个单身，都是好朋友，互相扶持，彼此视作"家人"。