He's a distant cousin of mine.

他是我远房的一个表亲。

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An old saying goes that a near neighbor is better than a distant cousin. Having a good neighbor is lucky.

俗话说“远亲不如近邻”，有个好邻居是件幸运的事。

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I do know that we ended up retreating to Bad Gandersheim, in the Harz Mountains, where we stayed with a distant cousin.

我只记得我们搬去了在哈尔茨山区的一个叫巴德·冈德西姆的地方，找到一位远房亲戚，并重新安顿下来。

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His distant cousin, Franklin Roosevelt, began his presidency in nineteen thirty-three and served until his death in nineteen forty-five.

VOA: special.2009.07.24

Theodore Roosevelt was a distant cousin of Franklin Roosevelt, a Democrat who became president in nineteen thirty-three.

VOA: special.2010.09.16

The sum of it was a too distant cousin of the German biergarten ideal I sought.

BBC: The wiedergeburt (rebirth) of New York��s biergartens

This is instead a teachable moment not only for football, but also for its distant cousin, soccer.

FORBES: What Soccer Can Learn From the NFL Referee Lockout

He was also a distant cousin of former Vice President Al Gore.

BBC: US author Gore Vidal dies aged 86