I-I guess he didn't have a lot of other kin.

我猜他没什么近亲吧。

The article says the toad is unique. It has no relatives.

文章上说这种蟾蜍是二的，没有近亲。

The crab is a cousin of the lobster and the shrimp.

螃蟹是龙虾和虾的近亲。

It's a closer cousin to the mulberry, actually.

事实上，它是桑葚的近亲。

Inbreeding is when a young animal is born from closely related parents.

近亲交配是指幼仔由亲缘关系密切的父母繁殖而来。

Even some of our smaller primate cousins like this tarsier.

甚至还有些比我们体型更小的灵长近亲，如这只眼镜猴。

But all 2,000 horses all living today are again at risk of inbreeding.

但是现存的 2，000 匹马再次面临近亲繁殖的危机。

Right. And is that a close relative?

好的，这是位近亲吗？

They may look like zebras, but they are actually the only living relative of giraffes.

它们可能看上去像斑马，但他们实际上是仅存的长颈鹿的近亲。

We can also use the term close or distant.

我们也可近亲或远亲来表示。

A close family means your immediate family or people you often see.

近亲是指你的直系亲属或你经常见到的人。

Having a tight aggregation, hunting and interbreeding with related crocodile species all pose threats.

由于聚群密集，和近亲鳄鱼共同捕猎并种间繁殖，这都对它们造成了威胁。

Cephalopods may have evolved complex brains long before our vertebrate relatives.

头足或许比我们的脊椎动物近亲更早演化出复杂的脑部。

A near relation of mine called me the other day.

不久前我的个近亲给我打电话。

That is effectively what humans have been doing to our closest relatives — chimps.

这实际上就是人对我们的近亲——黑猩猩所做的事情。

B) They cope with the outside world more effectively than their animal relatives.

B）他们能比其动物近亲更有效地应对外部世界。

The underlying assumption is that publishing is just one big, happy, incestuously closed family.

这背后不言而喻的想法是，出版圈根本就是个快乐大家庭，近亲繁殖，外人免入。

Our close relative, Homo erectus, survived 10 times longer than we have existed.

我们的近亲直立猿人，比我们存在的时间长了10倍。

Purist engineering has also been used to distance a language from an overly close relative.

纯粹主义工程学也被来将种语言与过于近亲语言隔离开。

Nearly two-thirds had next of kin who opted for a public burial.

近三分之二的死者近亲选择了公开安葬。