day 25family ties
unit 4 · family & homefamily ties
Talk about family ties, ancestors and inheritance, say “that’s a bit much” with 未免, and “can’t help but” with 不免.
today’s words
- 家屬 jiāshǔ · family members (of a patient etc.)
- 青春 qīngchūn · youth, young days
- 繼承 jìchéng · inherit; carry on
- 兒女 érnǚ · sons and daughters, children
- 老人家 lǎorénjia · elderly person (respectful)
- 子孫 zǐsūn · descendants
- 親生 qīnshēng · one’s own (by birth)
- 子弟 zǐdì · young people (of a family, group)
- 祖宗 zǔzōng · ancestors
- 恩愛 ēn'ài · loving (of a couple)
- 和睦 hémù · harmonious (family)
- 娘 niáng · mum, mother (old-fashioned)
- 籍貫 jíguàn · ancestral home, native place
- 嫂子 sǎozi · sister-in-law (older brother’s wife)
- 兩口子 liǎngkǒuzi · husband and wife, the couple
- 男方 nánfāng · the groom’s side
- 打擊 dǎjí · blow, setback; to hit hard
- 堅固 jiāngù · solid, sturdy
- 暴露 pùlù · exposed, revealed
- 損壞 sǔnhuài · damage
- 隱藏 yǐncáng · hide, conceal
- 未免 wèimiǎn · rather (too), a bit much
sentences
- 請一百桌客人，未免太誇張了吧？ · A hundred tables of guests? Isn’t that a bit over the top?
- 第一次見這麼多親戚，安娜不免有點緊張。 · Meeting so many relatives for the first time, Anna can’t help feeling a little nervous.
- 林家一直很和睦，兒女都很孝順。 · The Lin family has always got on well, and the children are all devoted to their parents.
- 以前的人見面，常常先問對方的籍貫。 · In the old days, people meeting for the first time often asked each other’s ancestral home.
- 奶奶說，她小時候都叫媽媽「娘」。 · Grandma says that when she was little, she called her mother “niang”.