"You may not have heard of a second appendix," he replied, "but surely you've heard of a second wife."

你也许没听说过第二次患阑尾炎的，但你总听说过有人会有第二个妻子吧？

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"You may not have heard of a second appendix," he replied, "but surely you have heard a second wife."

“您可能没听说过会有第二个阑尾的，”他回答说，“可是您一定听说过人会有第二任妻子的吧。”

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By the same wife my father had four children more born there, and by a second wife ten others, in all seventeen.

我父亲同前妻又生了四个孩子，同第二个妻子生了十个孩子，总共十七个孩子。

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Now I have a wife. So it's gonna be easier for me to see the second one."

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Peter was the first child of his father's second wife and thus a potential threat to the ambition of the relatives of the first wife.

彼得是他父亲与其第二任妻子的长子,因此对第一任妻子的亲戚们而言,彼得是他们的一个潜在威胁

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His second wife was a Latvian peasant maid.

他的第二任妻子是一位拉脱维亚农民出身的女佣

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Most of the cases are of men taking a second wife, rather than women taking a second husband.

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Mr Turk rescued her from a life of potential dishonour by taking her under his wing as a second wife.

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French law explicitly outlaws it, and denies second wives the right to join their husbands in France (though if a second wife dies, her children are sometimes allowed to join their French-based father).

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