The position of the first wife is prestigious in my culture, and that prestige is tripled when the first wife is a first cousin and mother of a first son.

在我们的文化中，第一任妻子是有威望的，并且当第一任妻子同时也是表（堂）姐妹、和长子的母亲时，这种威望就会翻三倍。

His beloved first wife died early, in 1909, and the younger of his two sons was killed in the First World War.

1909年，他的第一任爱妻早逝，两个儿子中的最小的一个死于一战。

The first wife traditionally had the right to order the secondary wives around and her children were given precedence over the other children.

大太太通常有权力支使偏房做事，她的孩子相对于小太太的孩子们来说也享有优待。