nuclear family
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++ˌnuclear ˈfamily noun [countable] SSFFAMILYa family unit that consists only of a husband, wife, and children 〔仅由夫妻与子女组成的〕核心家庭，小家庭 → extended family
Examples from the Corpus
nuclear family• Second, the extended family counts for relatively less and the immediate nuclear family for relatively more.• Religion and the nuclear family went hand in hand.• To return from conjecture to fact: the nuclear family left Lewis in 1944 when I was five years old.• The relationship of the nuclear family to wider social forms has troubled the historian for a long time.• I have been anxious to show that the nuclear family may lead not to satisfaction but to frustration and disappointment.• The result of this dramatic change was the nuclear family.• Three also stands for the relations within the nuclear family, and efforts to ascertain where one fits in there.ˌnuclear ˈfamily nounChineseSyllable
a consists wife, Corpus unit a husband, family of only and that
nuclear family
ˌnuclear ˈfamily
noun [countable]
a family unit that consists only of a husband, wife, and children ⇨ extended family
ˌnuclear ˈfamily
noun [countable]a family unit that consists only of a husband, wife, and children ⇨ extended family