After his death, the family line failed.

他死之后，这个家系就消亡了。

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Traditionally, the family line is passed via men.

传统上，家庭主要靠男人。

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Lingbo was the Fus' only son, their only hope to continue the family line.

林波是付家唯一的儿子，也是他们家唯一的延续香火的希望。

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For a family of two,the poverty line begins at yearly earnings of fourteen thousand dollars or less.

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One of them,by the way,just about ten years ago, the Orleanist family suffered kind of an embarrassing reversal when one of the Orleanists, sort of the third in line if there was ever an Orleanist restoration of the throne,was arrested for burglary, as being an accessory for burglary in the Pyrenees-Orientales.

顺便说一说,在十年前,奥尔良家族遭受了令人尴尬的霉运,这些儿子中的一个,如果奥尔良家族复辟的话,可以说是第三顺位继承人,他因为盗窃被捕,在东比利牛斯省因为盗窃同谋被捕

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Jatin has been forced into it so that he can have children and continue the family line.

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Sulzberger was the third in his family line and the second with his surname to serve as publisher of the Times.

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