22-06-22 Next of kin 是指家人或者近亲(closest relatives or anyone in the family)。 在美国，所谓亲人也是依每个人的不同情况而定的，可能是夫妇、父母、儿女或是叔叔婶婶、表兄弟姐妹。 例如： If a person has a serious car accident, his or her next of kin will be no...

21-12-17 近日，日本汉字能力检定协会（the Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation）在京都市的清水寺公布了最能反映2021年世态民情的年度汉字。 The Japanese kanji for kin, meaning gold, was voted character of the year on Monday in honor of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics...

12-12-03 Paternal recognition -- being able to identify males from your father's line -- is important for the avoidance of inbreeding（近亲交配） , and one way that mammals can do this is through recognizing the calls of paternal kin. This was thought to occ...

12-05-09 Once upon a time there was a king and a queen who were rich and had all they wanted except that they had no children. The queen bewailed（痛哭） this day and night, saying: I am like a field on which nothing grows. At last God granted her wish, but...