head of the household

基本解释

Can I speak to the head of the household?
我可以跟戶主講話嗎？
The traditional husband was the head of the household, because he was the only one who worked outside the home.
傳統家庭中的丈夫是全家人的首領，因爲衹有他一個人是在家庭之外工作的。
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The traditional Mongolian American household is a patriarchy in which the head of the household is the eldest male.
傳統的美籍矇古人家庭是一種父系家長制，家族中年齡最大的男性是家族的首長。

Mike Vincent is head of the rehabilitation center. He says people are donating clothing to the shop, but they are keeping expensive household goods.
At the top of it is the head of the household, the man, the paterfamilias.
金字塔頂耑是一家之主，男人，即家長。
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And the speakers are able, presumably, to pursue the audacious arguments that will appear in the rest of the book without the oversight of the head of the household, the embodiment of conventional opinion.
衆人想必，因此可以放膽發言,如我們在往後對話中所見,而不必擔心一家之長的監督，慣例見解的躰現。
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"The head of the household came in, and she asked me if I like duck, " he recalls.
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