Theatre musicians tend to be the poor relations of the musical profession.

【poor】戏剧音乐家往往是音乐界的穷亲戚。

Here she was much happier, despite being the poor relation, dependent on charity.

在这里，她更快乐，尽管关系很差，依赖慈善。

This Elliott knew better than anybody and he had always a friendly word and a cordial smile for the poor relation, the old maidservant, or the trusted secretary.

这个埃利奥特比任何人都清楚，无论是对可怜的亲戚、老女仆还是信任的秘书，他总是亲切的话语和亲切的微笑。

She had very rich and also very poor relations; the poor relations were on her father's, the rich on her mother's side; the latter including the senator Volgin and the Princes Tchikurasov.

她有很多亲戚，也有很穷的亲戚。穷亲戚是她父亲的，富人是她母亲的。后者包括参议员 Volgin 和王子 Tchikurasov。