在翻译过程中，碰到一个亲戚关系的问题。
    nephew在英文中既可译成外甥，又可译成侄子，因此，在翻译时，如果不针对具体的人物关系加以确认，就会把关系弄错。如：

　　But Marshall learned from Mill's works (and from the economist F. Y. Edgeworth, nephew of Ricardo's friend Maria Edgeworth) and then taught Keynes, who dominated British economics until World War II and produced numerous prominent disciples.
　　
　　这里就涉及到nephew的翻译。
　　先交代一下人名：

　　
    那，二人是姑侄关系，还是姨甥关系？
　　搜索网络，都是后者是前者的外甥。可是，他们有着共同的姓，这又让人觉得不可理解。只能求证了。

　　先搜索Maria Edgeworth
　　Maria Edgeworth was born at Black Bourton, Oxfordshire. She was the third child of Richard Lovell Edgeworth and Anna Maria Edgeworth and thus an aunt of Francis Ysidro Edgeworth. Her father fathered twenty-two children by four wives. She spent the first years of her life with her mother's family in England, until her mother's death when Maria was only five years old. On her father's second marriage to Honora Sneyd in 1773, she went with him to Ireland, where she eventually was to settle on his estate, Edgeworthstown, in County Longford.
　　从中看出，Maria 是Richard Lovell Edgeworth（理查德·洛弗尔·埃奇沃思）的第3个孩子，而且是F. Y. Edgeworth的aunt，但aunt是姑姑，还是姨，不好说。

    Richard Lovell Edgeworth was married four times. Below are portraits of the four ladies. Honora and Elizabeth Sneyd are sisters. Maria Edgeworth was the second child of his first wife, Anna Maria Elers.
    译文：理查德·洛弗尔·埃奇沃思结过4次婚。下面是4位夫人的肖像。Maria Edgeworth是他与第一位妻子Anna Maria Elers的第二个孩子。
   
　　这伙计的命可真硬，克死一个再找一个。


　　再搜Francis Edgeworth
　　Francis Edgeworth's parents were Rosa Florentina Eroles, who was Spanish, and Francis Beaufort Edgeworth, who came from an Irish family with strong literary connections. His grandfather was Richard Lovell Edgeworth, an author, inventor and educationalist who was married four times and had 22 children. Among these 22 children were Edgeworth's father and also Maria Edgeworth who was well known as a writer of children's stories and also for novels about life in Ireland. Richard Lovell Edgeworth had an estate at Edgeworthstown, northwest of Dublin, and it was on this estate that Edgeworth was born.
　　从中看出，F. Y. Edgeworth的爷爷是Richard Lovell Edgeworth，即是Richard Lovell Edgeworth的孙子。根据其他资料，应该是他第6个儿子的第5个儿子。

　　结论：Francis Ysidro Edgeworth是Maria Edgeworth的侄子，不是外甥。