The basic unit of society is the family.

社会的基本单位是家庭。

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Agriculture was based in the past on the family as a unit.

农业过去以一个家庭单元为基础。

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For example, in some societies, the nuclear family is the unit that regularly eats together.

例如，在一些社会中，核心家庭是一个经常一起吃饭的单位。

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"We are very much supportive of the family -- the biblical definition of the family unit, " Cathy said.

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What helped meld them into a tight, family-like unit is the way all four work with contestants, Aguilera said.

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Although he is focused on the small-winery unit, just renamed Jackson Family Farms, there, too, he is ceding more matters to management, which includes his wife, Barbara Banke.

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