jigsaw family 拼图家庭

时间:2013-12-10 06:28:45

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Jigsaw1 family is a household that includes two or more sets of children from the parents‘ previous relationships, in addition to any children they have together.
 
Jigsaw family指夫妻双方带着各自之前婚姻中的孩子,以及他们自己的孩子共同组成的新家庭,即“拼图家庭”。
 
The traditional married couple with 1.6 children was increasingly being replaced by "amalgamated2" or "jigsaw" families where one or both of the couple have children from a previous relationship.
 
传统的一对夫妻加1.6个孩子的家庭模式正在被“混合家庭”或“拼图家庭”所取代,这类家庭中夫妻一方或双方会带着之前婚姻中的孩子加入新家庭。

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1 jigsaw q3Gxa     
n.缕花锯,竖锯,拼图游戏;vt.用竖锯锯,使互相交错搭接
参考例句:
  • A jigsaw puzzle can keep me absorbed for hours.一副拼图就能让我沉醉几个小时。
  • Tom likes to work on jigsaw puzzles,too.汤姆也喜欢玩拼图游戏。
2 amalgamated ed85e8e23651662e5e12b2453a8d0f6f     
v.(使)(金属)汞齐化( amalgamate的过去式和过去分词 );(使)合并;联合;结合
参考例句:
  • The company has now amalgamated with another local firm. 这家公司现在已与当地一家公司合并了。
  • Those two organizations have been amalgamated into single one. 那两个组织已合并为一个组织。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

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