And I say this as a blood relation.

我是作为他亲弟弟来说这话的。

Harold may have been named the successor,   but he did not have any blood relation to the royal family.

哈罗德可能被指定为继承人，但他与王室没有任何血缘关系。

And who but a blood relation, that couldn't help himself, I ask you, would take in that awful-tempered old maid, and that dreadful Clifford?

我问你，除了一个无法控制自己的血缘关系， 谁会收留那个脾气暴躁的老姑娘和那个可怕的克利福德？

When I came out as bisexual, then as polyamorous, then as gender non-binary, most of my blood relations and over 30 cousins stopped talking to me.

当我以双性恋身份出柜，然后是一夫多妻制，然后是非二元性别时，我的大部分血亲和 30 多个堂兄弟都不再跟我说话了。

Many Black families in the US have chosen aunties and uncles with no blood relation, but a decision to be family and a commitment to the children involved.

美国的许多黑人家庭选择了没有血缘关系的阿姨和叔叔，但他们决定成为一家人， 并对所涉及的孩子做出承诺。