Most extended families don't live together.

大多数大家族并不住在一起。

Now we live in isolation, far from our extended families.

而现在我们都是处于孤立状态，远离了我们的大家庭。

With extended families, distant relatives may not know one another.

在大家庭里，远亲未必互相认识。

The neighbors usually know the children's backgrounds and extended families.

附近居民大都知道这些孩子背景和亲族。

There are basically two types of families: nuclear families and extended families.

基本上有两种家庭类型：核心家庭和大家庭。

No wonder most Infosysians like to bring their extended families to tour the campus.

这就是大多数Infosy人喜欢带他们的家人来校园参观的原因。

There are basically two types of families: nuclear families, and extended families.

家庭基本上可分两类：核心家庭和大家庭。

Laid-off factory workers tend to return to the countryside and rely on their extended families.

被解雇的工厂员工往往选择返回农村老家，依赖大家庭维持生计。

"I would imagine that many of these mortuary caves are for large extended families," Aldenderfer said.

“我能想象这些许多安葬洞穴都是那些大型的几世同堂的大家庭的。”Aldenderfer说。

People with twins in their extended families may wonder whether a crib for two is in their future, too.

家族中有双胞胎的人不知道他们以后会不会也要用到双人用的娃娃床。

In other words, most countries are, so some extent or another, analogous to extremely large extended families.

换句话说，大多数国荚冬在一定程度上，类似于一个极大的家庭。

In the old days, Chinese people preferred to live in extended families with up to four generations under the same roof.

从前，中国人喜欢大家庭，很多人生活在一起，有的家庭四世同堂——四代人住在一起。

The numbers are such that traditional ways of caring for children in extended families and communities are breaking down.

这个比例使传统的大家庭或社区育儿方式越来越不管用了。

Suddenly three or four extended families were often packed into a courtyard house that had once been occupied by a single family.

原来只住一户人的房子，现在却突然挤进了三四户人家。

These cultures reinforce extended families and collectives where everyone takes responsibility for fellow members of their group.

这些文化强调家庭式的观念和情感依赖以及成员对于组织中其他成员的责任感。

In industrial societies today, the members of most nuclear families live together, but most extended families do not live together.

在今天的工业社会里，大多数核心家庭的成员生活在一起，但是大多数大家庭的成员不住在一起。

So even prior to the Internet's widespread popularity, folks were already becoming distanced from their extended families and neighbors.

以至于在因特网广泛普及以前，人们就已经远离了他们的远房亲戚和邻居。

Above all, the large extended families and networks of godparents, which provide crucial support to young Latina mothers, seem to be weakening.

最重要的是，为年轻拉美裔母亲提供重要扶助的多亲属家庭及“教父母”关系网似乎正日趋涣散。

Even in this country, less than 150 years ago, most Americans lived on farms or in small towns with extended families and relatives close by.

即使是在美国，150年前，大多数美国人都是一大家子和亲戚生活在农场或小镇上。

Given certain conditions, we can all have affairs, destroying the happiness of our spouse, our children, our extended families, our lover, and ourselves.

如果条件允许的话，我们都可能有外遇，这样不仅会造成夫妻关系的破裂，还会影响到我们的孩子，家人，情人，甚至是我们自己。

The system worked well as long as Japanese lived in extended families, stayed put at one address, and were dutiful about keeping their records up to date.

只要日本公民一直住在他们原来的大家庭里，不搬迁住址，且一直这样延续他们的香火下去，那么这种制度就能很好地实施开来。

Samoan culture is very localized, and centered on tight-knit extended families, whereas Western societies tend to be highly individualistic and homophobic.

萨摩亚文化具有地方局限性，是以紧密的大家庭为中心；而西方社会则是高度个人主义的，并且总体恐惧同性恋。

Large families began to divide into smaller extended families and stem families, with the trend pointing toward the emergence of more and more nuclear families.

人口众多的大家庭开始分成较小的家庭和直系家庭，总的趋势是出现了越来越多的核心家庭。

Because people move away from their extended families, traditions are lost, which is why it is important to document them whether they are active traditions or not.

因为人们搬离了他们的大家庭，传统丢失了，这就是为什么无论传统是否依然起作用，都应当记录下来的原因。