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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There are also survivorship policies that will pay, for example, the second to die-- there would be a policy if a husband and wife get it, then it pays out when the second of them dies.

还有一种叫做生死两全保险,它会向身故受益人赔付直至其死亡,若一对夫妻购买这种保单,且其中一方死亡,那么它会给活着的一方赔付直至其死亡

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