relative

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英[ˈrelətɪv]
美[ˈrelətɪv]

基本释义

n.
亲戚; 同类事物
adj.
相对的; 比较的; 相比之下存在; 关于; 指代前面句子(的一部分)

词性变化

实用例句

the relative merits of the two plans

相比较之下两个计划各自的优点

牛津词典

the position of the sun relative to the earth

太阳与地球的相对位置

牛津词典

They now live in relative comfort (= compared with how they lived before) .

他们现在过得比较舒适。

牛津词典

Given the failure of the previous plan, this turned out to be a relative success.

由于前面那个计划失败了,这个计划算是比较成功的。

牛津词典

It's all relative though, isn't it? We never had any money when I was a kid and $500 was a fortune to us.

不过,一切都是相对的,是不是?我小的时候,我们根本没有钱,500块钱对于我们来说就是很大的一笔财富了。

牛津词典

the facts relative to the case

与这个案件有关的事实

牛津词典

In ‘the man who came ’, ‘who ’ is a relative pronoun and ‘who came ’ is a relative clause .

在the man who came中,who是关系代词,而who came是关系从句。

牛津词典

a close/distant relative

近 / 远亲

牛津词典

her friends and relatives

她的亲友

牛津词典

The ibex is a distant relative of the mountain goat.

北山羊与石山羊有较远的亲缘关系。

牛津词典

Do relatives of yours still live in Siberia?...

你的亲属仍然住在西伯利亚吗?

Get a relative to look after the children.

找一个亲戚来照看孩子。

The fighting resumed after a period of relative calm...

战斗在相对平静的一段时间之后再次打响。

It is a cancer that can be cured with relative ease...

这是一种相对来说比较容易治疗的癌症。

They chatted about the relative merits of London and Paris as places to live...

他们聊起了伦敦和巴黎两座城市相比较都有哪些宜居的优点。

I reflected on the relative importance of education in 50 countries.

我思考了50个国家相对而言对教育的重视程度。

Japanese interest rates rose relative to America's...

日本利率随美国利率上浮。

House prices now look cheap relative to earnings...

相对收入而言房价现在看起来比较便宜。

Fitness is relative; one must always ask 'Fit for what?'...

“适合”是相对而言的;应该常常问一问“适合什么?”

Truth is relative.

真理是相对的。

The pheasant is a close relative of the Guinea hen.

雉与珍珠鸡有很近的亲缘关系。

What do you like to do in your spare time?

空闲时你喜欢干什么?

辞典例句

A stranger who is kind is a relative; an unkind relative is a stranger.

善良的陌生人是亲戚, 冷漠的亲戚是陌生人.

《简明英汉词典》

A distant relative is not as good as a near neighbour.

远亲不如近邻.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

I have a distant relative in this small town.

在这个小镇上我有一个远亲.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

Motion is absolute while stagnation is relative.

运动是绝对的,而静止是相对的.

《简明英汉词典》

真题例句

There's an ancient legend that as long as these eggs are made, evil will not prevail in the world, says Joan Brander, a Canadian egg-painter who has been painting eggs for over 60 years, having learned the art from her Ukrainian relatives.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

With Facebook she could keep her relatives up to date on what she was doing.

出自-2017年6月听力原文

Whenever she called her parents or other relatives, she always had to think about the time difference so that she wouldn’t wake someone up or call when she knew they were at church.

出自-2017年6月听力原文

When your elderly relative needs to enter some sort of long-term care facility—a moment few parents or children approach without fear—what you would like is to have everything made clear.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

Russians also get up an hour later on International Women's Day, the day for treating and celebrating female relatives.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

He cut back only after a full-scale family intervention (干预), in which relatives told him he'd gained weight.

出自-2010年6月阅读原文

He had offended his relatives

出自-2010年6月阅读原文

Social workers and experts on aging offer caregivers and potential caregivers help when arranging for the care of an elderly relative.

出自-2011年6月听力原文

Albert Einstein predicted this in 1905, when he introduced the concept of relative time as part of his Special Theory of Relativity

出自-2011年6月听力原文

We write to communicate with relatives and friends.

出自-2010年12月听力原文

With computers and Internet connections in so many households, colleges, business, people e-mailing friends and relatives all the time—or talking to them in writing in online chat rooms

出自-2010年12月听力原文

That lack of curiosity produces a relative lack of knowledge, and the lack of knowledge is difficult if not impossible to compensate for later on.

2017年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

What has changed, instead, is the relative share adopting different ways of living in early adulthood, with the decline of romantic coupling pushing living at home to the top of a much less uniform list of living arrangements.

2019年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

That relative strength would be consistent with what was seen in the wider retail industry during the early part of the holiday season.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

One relative bright spot for Macy's during the holiday season was the online channel, where it rang up double-digit increases in sales and a 25% increase in the number of orders it filled.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

By raising relative demand for clean energy sources, a carbon price would also help align the market return to clean-energy innovation with its social return, spurring the refinement of existing technologies and the development of new ones.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

One useful way is to distinguish between three degrees of poverty—extreme poverty,moderate poverty, and relative poverty.

出自-2017年6月听力原文

There is an incompatibility in the rate at which these are advancing relative to the way we're digesting it, he said.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

Chetty has not yet issued a comprehensive analysis of the relative predictive power of each of these factors.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

They find close relatives more reliable.

出自-2014年6月听力原文

Mary might as well send her dog to her relative.

出自-2013年12月听力原文

Mary is going to get a little dog from one of her relatives.

出自-2013年12月听力原文

"There is an incompatibility in the rate at which these are advancing relative to the way we're digesting it," he said.

2016年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

According to a 2012 survey described in The Atlantic, college reputation ranked lowest in relative importance of attributes in evaluating graduates for hire, beaten out by top factors like internships, employment during college, college major, volunteer e

2018年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B

But we can say that basically a family living in relative poverty has less than a percentage of the average family income.

2017年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C

One relative bright spot for Macy's during the holiday season was the online channel, where it rang up" double-digit" increases in sales and a 25% increase in the number of orders it filled.

2017年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C

Relative poverty is generally considered to be a household income level which is below a given proportion of average family income.

2017年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C

The third kind of poverty is relative poverty.

2017年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C

I was able to buy it a little over a year ago because I had my relatives give me money for my birthday instead of clothes that wouldn't fit.

2015年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

Whether you're looking at wallpaper or paint, the time, effort and relative expense put into it are significant.

2018年高考英语全国卷I 阅读理解 七选五 原文

Among the most popular : paternity and kinship testing , which adopted children can use to find their biological relatives and families can use to track down kids put for adoption.

出自-2009年考研阅读原文

This doesn’t, however, make interpretation merely relative or even pointless.

出自-2015年考研阅读原文

If left to themselves, such trends will diminish the relative strength of the English language in international education markets as the demand for educational resources in languages, such as Spanish ,Arabic or Mandarin grows and international business process outsourcing in other language such as Japanese, French and German, spreads.

出自-2017年考研翻译原文

It's not popular to say, but one reason their pay has gone up so much is that CEOs really have upped their game relative to many other workers in the U.S.

2020年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

This doesn't, however, make interpretation merely relative or even pointless.

2015年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

英英释义

Noun
  • 1. a person related by blood or marriage;

    "police are searching for relatives of the deceased"

    "he has distant relations back in New Jersey"

  • 2. an animal or plant that bears a relationship to another (as related by common descent or by membership in the same genus)

Adjective
  • 1. not absolute or complete;

    "a relative stranger"

  • 2. properly related in size or degree or other measurable characteristics; usually followed by `to';

    "punishment oughtt to be proportional to the crime"

    "earnings relative to production"

同义词辨析

relative, relation

这两个名词均有"亲戚,亲属"之意。

  • relative: 普通用词,常可与relation换用,有时指一般的亲戚。
  • relation: 一般指因血统或婚烟关系形成的亲戚。

同义词

其他释义

connection

反义词

adj.相对的

absolute

其他释义

absolute

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