1. 有關“household”的短語:
low-income/one-parent, etc. households 低收入、單親等家庭
the head of the household 戶主
household bills/chores/goods 家庭賬單/雜務/用品
例句:More families consist of one-parent households or two working parents, consequently, children are likely to have less supervision at home than was common in the traditional family structure.
出現了也來越多的單親家庭,和雙親工作的家庭。因此這些家庭孩子們可能比傳統家庭要受到更少的監督。
2.yearns for 渴望
a yearning look 渴望的神情
例句:The people yearned for peace. 人民渴望和平。
She yearned to escape from her office job.
她一心想著躲避辦公室里的工作。
3.be known as 以…出名
例句:Microsoft used to be known as the Great Satan when it came to enterprise operating systems.
微軟在進入企業操作系統領域的時候被認為是大惡魔。
He's a known thief.
他是個出了名的小偷。
The disease has no known cure.
這種病目前還是不治之癥。
4.support family 養家糊口 ; 負擔家計
例句:They are just a rightness of poor husband and wife, taking to help money to support family!
他們只是一對貧窮的夫婦,帶著救命錢養家!