The website said the person was a first cousin.

该网站称，这个人是他的亲。

If they were related, they were only a cross between first and second cousins, and even that could in no way be proved.

如果他们真的是亲戚，那顶多是远妹之间发生苟关系，何况连这一点也是无法证实的。

Even people like Charles Darwin and Albert Einstein married their first cousins.

即使是像查尔斯·达尔文和阿尔伯特·爱因斯坦这样的人也娶了他们的亲。

Words ran in her family. The most spectacular proof was my mother's first cousin Edwin.

母亲的家庭与文字素有渊源。最显著的证据就是我母亲最年长的堂埃德温。

Your first cousin, a little more important.

你的堂，更重要一点。

For centuries they experimented with marriages between first cousins, second cousins and cousins so multiply intertwined that the traditional familial vocabulary breaks down.

几个世纪以来，他们一直在尝试亲、远房亲之间进行婚姻、繁衍，以至于传统的家庭词汇被打破。

Taking time to let the dust settle was a move Bush partly credits to his first cousin President George W. Bush.

布什之所以能慢慢平息下来，在一定程度上要归功于他的治·W·布什总统。

My first cousin and his son are almost certainly dead. We will all be in mourning.

我的堂和堂侄几乎肯定已命丧黄泉。我们全家都要服丧。

I have, actually, 50, five zero, first cousins.

实际上，我有 50 个，五个零个堂弟姐妹。

People like Charles Darwin, Edgar Allan Poe and Albert Einstein, all married their first cousins.

像查尔斯·达尔文、埃德加·爱伦·坡和阿尔伯特·爱因斯坦这样的人都娶了自己的亲。

I am one of 50 first cousins.

我是50个堂弟姐妹之一。

She was surrounded by cousins, first cousins, second cousins, third cousins.

她周围都是堂弟姐妹，有堂弟姐妹、堂堂弟姐妹、堂堂堂弟姐妹。

And who is also first cousin of Fred Weller, my good friend.

他还是我好朋友弗雷德·韦勒的第一代堂弟。

Probably not, because he also, and this is true, married his first cousin.

可能不会，因为他还真的娶了他的堂姐。

Not her second cousin; her father's first cousin once removed!

不是她的妹，而是她父亲的堂的远房亲！

Were Jim's parents first cousins that were also bad at Ping-Pong?

吉姆的父母是弟姐妹, 乒乓球也很差吗?

Or whether you're going to do an Airbnb, because it's in your backyard, and you're going to lay your hands on it, and you are a man who controls your destiny, you don't ask your first cousin to do it.

或者你打算做Airbnb，因为那就在你家后院， 你能亲自打理，而且你是个掌控自己命运的人，不会让亲代劳。

Ooh, yes, it is physically possible for first cousins to have children, but it is important to understand that such relationships carry a slightly elevated risk of genetic disorders compared to unrelated parents, brother.

哦，是的，堂弟姐妹在生理上是可以生育孩子的，但重要的是要明白， 这样的关系与没有血缘关系的父母相比， 携带遗传疾病的风险稍微高一些，弟。

This is a good question because I'm guessing a lot of Americans or native English speakers don't themselves understand anything beyond the concept of " first cousin." So let's start with that.

这是一个很好的问题，因为我想很多美国人或母语为英语的人，除了“堂弟姐妹”这个概念外，对其他关系可能也不甚了解。那么，让我们从这里开始吧。

At one time it wasdiscovered that she was writing letters to the Bishop, whom she claimed as a first cousin, but it was never said whether she received any reply.

有一次，人们发现她正在给她自称是堂妹的主教写信，但没人说她是否收到了回信。