By keeping women under the household of the men of their original family, the upper-class Romans tried to balance these different households in size and importance.

所以女子保留娘家的家户关系，有助于罗马上层阶级,平衡不同家户的规模及地位。

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The household structure of a Roman household was this-- and I say "household," because our word "family," which we usually take to mean the biological family: the father, the mother, the children, maybe the grandchildren, maybe the extended family.

罗马人的家户结构是。。。,我用“家户“是因为“家庭“,通常是指有血缘关系的亲人：,父亲，母亲，孩子，可能还有孙辈，大家庭。

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