your family or your relatives (统称)家属,亲属,亲戚 Marriage between close kin is prohibited. 禁止近亲结婚。
Extra ExamplesTopics Family and relationshipsc2Ties with extended kin vary from family to family. 与大家庭成员的关系因家庭而异。 loyalty to blood kin 对血亲的忠诚
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- close
- near
- blood
- …
- group
- network
- relationships
- …
- between kin
- next of kin
Word OriginOld English cynn, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch kunne, from an Indo-European root meaning ‘give birth to’, shared by Greek genos and Latin genus ‘race’.
Idioms
kith and kin
- (old-fashioned)
friends and relatives Topics Family and relationshipsc2亲戚朋友 More Like This Alliteration in idiomsAlliteration in idioms- belt and braces
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- born and bred
- chalk and cheese
- chop and change
- done and dusted
- down and dirty
- in dribs and drabs
- eat somebody out of house and home
- facts and figures
- fast and furious
- first and foremost
- forgive and forget
- hale and hearty
- hem and haw
- kith and kin
- mix and match
- part and parcel
- puff and pant
- to rack and ruin
- rant and rave
- risk life and limb
- short and sweet
- signed and sealed
- spic and span
- through thick and thin
- this and that
- top and tail
- tried and tested
- wax and wane