paternal family

基本解释

One thing he says he did not think about much was politics—or, for that matter, the story of his paternal family.
他唯一没想过的就是从政——这可能跟他的家庭有关。
During the presidential campaign, the family learned about one paternal great-great-grandfather, a former slave from South Carolina, but the rest of Mrs. Obama’s roots were a mystery.
在总统选举期间，所作的家族调查，只是知道其父系的一个祖先，是南卡罗莱纳的农奴，但是对于其家族的其它渊源则并不是很清晰。
In china, family that is characterized in paternal line and regionalism is the primary unit of a society.
在中国，以血缘关系为主导的兼具地域性的家庭、宗族组织结构是社会最基层的组织单位。

Harvard-educated Anand, soon to turn 56, represents the third generation of the Mahindra clan to run the family enterprise that his paternal grandfather and great-uncle founded in 1945 as a steel trader and then an assembler of Willys Jeeps.
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With the father gone, Vasquez said, the older brother assumed a kind of paternal role, at least where the girls in the family were concerned.
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Going back four generations, her family had suffered at least nine cases of genetic cancer, all on the paternal side.
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