This is a time of life when a solicitous family does well to watch affectionately over the vagaries of its unattached relatives, particularly of those who are comfortably off(J.P.Marquand.

• 这个时期的生活中，一个乐意帮忙的家庭总是充满爱意地观注着那些与它关系并不密切的亲戚们的古怪或狂妄的念头，特别是那些相当富足的家庭的怪念头（J P 马昆德）。