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Actually that’s something that many people are fascinated by– and has also become easier to investigate these days now companies offer to test the DNA in your saliva for as little as a hundred dollars.
事实上这也是人们为什么痴迷于调查家族史的原因。如今，调查家族史也变得很容易，一些公司可以测试你唾液中的DNA，有时只需花费一百美元。
And then they come up with results saying you’re related to Alexander the Great or Brad Pitt…Remember I said that we were related? Well, let’s now listen to Else Churchill, from the Society of Genealogists here in London, who explains what I meant.
然后他们会说你和亚历山大大帝有联系，或和布拉德·皮特有联系。还记得我之前说的吗，我们两个也是互相有联系的。现在我们听听伦敦系谱学家协会的埃尔斯·丘吉尔怎么解释我说的意思。
There’s what you might call the gateway ancestor– and the idea of history and genealogy is that’s normally somebody that is so well documented that their descendants are well known – in England it’s something like Edward III. And we’re all probably descended from Edward III. Is it nice to have royal ancestors?Well, millions of people are descended from Edward III, and so in that sense, that’s where the connection might be. So the chances are an awful lot of people are distantly connected to each other.
有一种说法叫gateway祖先，这是历史和系谱学上的一种说法，通常是指一个人，有充分文字记载他的后代很有名，在英国，爱德华三世就是这样的祖先。我们也许都是爱德华三世的后代。有这样一个王室祖先是不是感觉不错？上千万人都是爱德华三世的后代。所以这种意义下，人和人之间会存在一些联系。所以，很可能很多人彼此之间有远方亲戚的关系。
Else Churchill says it’s likely that millions of us are distantly related to a gateway ancestor like King Edward III of England.And that means that all those people related to Edward III are also distantly related to each other.So it seems that paying a company a hundred dollars to reveal that you’re related to Edward III is a waste of money.
埃尔斯说，很可能上千万人之间都因为gateway祖先，例如英国爱德华三世国王的关系而产生联系。这就意味着凡是和爱德华三世有关的人，彼此之间都有遥远的联系。似乎给一个公司一百美元，结果说你和爱德华三世有关，这很浪费钱啊。
Yes, in the sense that it’s you and millions of other people.And in fact, we’re all related to each other somehow, via Edward III or someone else. 
没错，在这种意义下，你和上千万人都有联系。事实上，我们也会因为爱德华三世或其他人而彼此联系。
And another popular finding for British people is to say that you’re descended from the Vikings, and again this is true for many people so it isn’t particularly meaningful.
对英国人来说，另一个流行的发现是说你是维京人的后代。同样的，很多人都是如此，所以也就没什么特别的意义了。

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