Klaus thought this over for a minute as he swallowed a chewy bit of bean. “But our parents never mentioned Count Olaf to us. Just how is he related to us, exactly?”
Mr. Poe sighed and looked down at Sunny, who was biting a fork and listening closely. “He is either a third cousin four times removed, or a fourth cousin three times removed. He is not your closest relative on the family tree, but he is the closest geographically. That’s why-”
클라우스는 그가 콩의 쫄깃쫄깃한 조각을 삼키는 동안 잠시 동안에 걸쳐 이것을 생각했다. "하지만 우리 부모님은 우리에게 올라프 백작을 결코 언급하지 않았어요. 딱 어떻게 그가 우리와 관련되어 있나요, 정확히요?"
미스터 포는 한숨 쉬고 써니를 내려다보았는데, (써니는) 포크를 물어뜯으면서 자세히 듣고 있는 중이었다.
"그는 네 세대 떨어진 팔촌이거나, 세 세대 떨어진 10촌이거나 둘 중 하나야. 그는 가계도에서 너희들의 가장 가까운 친척이 아니라, 그는 지리적으로 가장 가까운 (친척)이지. 그게 바로-"
* removed (혈연관계가) ~촌의, 떨어진
* third cousin 팔촌
Klaus thought of this over for a minute as he swallowed a chewy bit of bean. "But our parents never mentioned Count Olaf to us. Just how is he related to us, exactly?"
Mr. Poe sighed and looked down at Sunny, who was biting a fork and listening closely.
"He is either a third cousin four times removed, or a fourth cousin three times removed. He is not your closest relative in the family tree, but he is the closest geographically. That's why-"