joint-family

单词joint-family

基本解释

n.: 同堂家庭
网络: 数代同堂；联合家庭；数代同堂的大家庭

权威解释

• 同堂家庭，联合家庭（包括祖父母和旁系亲属同居一户的家庭）:

  a family structure in which grandparents, uncles, aunts and cousins are considered as a single unit living in one house

例句

• "At one point we considered a joint family suicide because life was so awful and there seemed no future in it, " she said.

  “曾有一度我们想到过集体自杀，因为生活残酷而前途黯淡。”她说道。

• The project is about exploring this notion of joint family culture in the changing urban scenario.

  项目是在不断变化的城市图景下探讨数代同堂的大家庭文化。