start a family

基本解释

I know a lot of men cheat after they start a family.
我知道，一些男人从建立家庭之后开始欺骗女人。
The woman had been taking an oral contraceptive regularly and her gynaecologist could not vouch for her wish to start a family - a routine question in that area of medicine.
该女子经常服用口服避孕药，她的妇科医生不能担保她愿意开始有一个家庭 - 这是医学领域上的一个例行问题。
Some women join the scramble and forget about having children, but if they take time out to start a family they find it very hard to catch up afterwards.
有的女性也加入这样的激烈竞争中来，忘记了生孩子的事，但是在觉得很难撵上那些人的脚步的时候，她们就会拿出一部分时间来成家。

It is the story of Joseph Sutpen, who wants to start a famous Southern family after America's Civil War.
And maybe start a family one day, and... you know,
也许有一天会成家……，
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So, the only point of interest about this is that when do people start thinking that they're French, as opposed to from a certain family, from a certain village, from a certain region?
所以对这些感兴趣的唯一目的就是,什么时候大家开始觉得自己是法国人了,相对于某个家族,某个村子,某个地区
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Or to build a cash cushion so you and your spouse can start a family.
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