The record for most babies born to one woman is 69. Yes, you read that correctly 69!
世界上生孩子最多的女人共生下了69個(gè)孩子。對(duì)，你沒看錯(cuò)，就是69個(gè)！

Who was this amazing woman? We don’t really know. Her husband is the one whose name has lived on because of her crazy baby making skills. She was the first wife of Feodor Vassilyev, a peasant from Shuya, Russia who lived from 1707-1782. We can only speculate how many fire safety ordinances he violated by housing all his progeny in his little peasant sized hovel. Presumably, at some point they also had to choose to feed on the weak ones in order to provide food for the strong.
這個(gè)神奇的女人是誰？我們不知道。不過因?yàn)樗Q得上是瘋狂的生育能力，她丈夫的名字倒是流傳了下來。她的丈夫是俄羅斯Shuya的農(nóng)民Feodor Vassilyev，生活于1707年至1782，而她是他的第一任妻子。我們只能猜想，當(dāng)時(shí)他的小屋子里肯定擠滿了孩子，他大概也因此觸犯了不少防火安全條例。而且為了養(yǎng)活強(qiáng)壯一些的孩子，他們有可能會(huì)吃掉那些弱小一點(diǎn)的孩子。

How did she manage this feat given most women only have about 30-ish years of baby making ability? She gave birth to sixteen pairs of twins, seven sets of triplets, and four sets of quadruplets; so basically a veritable baby making factory who scoffs at “one at a timing” it. Amazingly, 67 of her children survived infancy, which was a remarkable rate for the day.
大多數(shù)女人的生育年限只有差不多三十年。而她是怎么做到生了這么多孩子的？答案就是她生了16對(duì)雙胞胎，7對(duì)三胞胎和4對(duì)四胞胎。所以說，她基本上可算是一座名副其實(shí)的生育工廠，根本不屑于一次只生一個(gè)這種事情。而且令人驚訝的是，她有67個(gè)孩子在嬰兒時(shí)期都存活了下來，這樣的存活率在當(dāng)時(shí)算是非常了不起的。

The really amazing thing of it is that with the 67 surviving kids, if each of them had 2 kids (a low number for back then, but we’ll be conservative here) and each of their kids had 2 kids and so on, and we assume about 25-ish years between generations. Then this couple currently has around 70,000 descendants!
再想想，如果這67個(gè)活下來的孩子每個(gè)人都有兩個(gè)孩子（這在當(dāng)時(shí)算少的，但我們還是保守點(diǎn)吧），他們的每個(gè)孩子又再有兩個(gè)孩子，每代的年齡差以25歲計(jì)算。那么，這對(duì)夫婦現(xiàn)在的子孫后代差不多有7萬人！

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