While the man himself remained elusive, his previously all-powerful family – seven sons, a daughter and an adopted son – was rapidly fragmenting .

这个人确实难以捉摸，之前他强大的家族——七子一女一个收养的儿子——已经瓦解。

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The adopted son of Stagecoach tycoon Ann Gloag is in intensive care in an African hospital after a car crash.

公共马车大亨安•格洛格的养子车祸后，在非洲医院的重症监护里。

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He had adopted another Roman, Octavian, and Julius Caesar's adopted son, Octavian, then formed an alliance with Mark Antony, who had been Julius Caesar's friend, and a lesser known figure named Lepidus, whom you don't really need to remember.

恺撒有个养子，屋大维，他与恺撒的朋友，马克·安东尼结成后三头同盟，还有一方大家比较陌生，是雷必达，这个名字不用记。

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When in 1676 Robert Cotton, the younger man whom Walton treated as an adopted son, joined his own work to Walton's, creating "Walton and Cotton's Angler, " he brought to the partnership the use of angling with dry flies.

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His own story -- an immigrants' son, adopted and then disowned by one of the richest families in Perugia, suffering from fugue states and sleep-walking -- makes him one of the more interesting characters in the case.

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In 2010, an American woman caused outrage after she sent her adopted son back to Russia alone on a one-way flight, saying the boy, then 7, had violent episodes that made the family fear for its safety.

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