Like a family tree that you might use to trace back through generations of ancestors, only it's showing a family of genetically related languages instead of people.

就像你可以追溯祖先的家谱一样，它只是在显示与遗传相关的语言，而不是人类。

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Instead of getting mad, his family encouraged him.

他的家人没有生气，反而鼓励他。

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Her kids voluntarily pitch in with the garden work, and the family cooks together instead of eating out.

她的孩子们自愿帮忙做园艺工作，全家一起做饭而不是外出就餐。

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Young Woody often had to work instead of attending school because his family was poor.

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I feel like you're going to disappear." Edward lives with a vampire family that has chosen to drink the blood of animals instead of humans.

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Instead,he drew the creatures to look like his family members in Brooklyn.

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If the president is trying to ensure that every senior has a family nurse, instead of a family doctor, that last proposal is the way to do it.

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Instead, family businesses contemplating a leadership transition, might be best served to approach this with creative entrepreneurial logic.

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One person familiar with the matter said she focused instead on pressing family business dealings.

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