relative

高中CET4CET6考研IELTS

英[?rel?t?v]
美[?rel?t?v]

基本釋義

n.
親戚; 同類事物
adj.
相對的; 比較的; 相比之下存在; 關(guān)于; 指代前面句子(的一部分)

詞性變化

實用例句

the relative merits of the two plans

相比較之下兩個計劃各自的優(yōu)點

牛津詞典

the position of the sun relative to the earth

太陽與地球的相對位置

牛津詞典

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

他們現(xiàn)在過得比較舒適。

牛津詞典

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

由于前面那個計劃失敗了,這個計劃算是比較成功的。

牛津詞典

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.

不過,一切都是相對的,是不是?我小的時候,我們根本沒有錢,500塊錢對于我們來說就是很大的一筆財富了。

牛津詞典

the facts relative to the case

與這個案件有關(guān)的事實

牛津詞典

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

在the man who came中,who是關(guān)系代詞,而who came是關(guān)系從句。

牛津詞典

a close/distant relative

近 / 遠親

牛津詞典

her friends and relatives

她的親友

牛津詞典

The ibex is a distant relative of the mountain goat.

北山羊與石山羊有較遠的親緣關(guān)系。

牛津詞典

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

你的親屬仍然住在西伯利亞嗎?

Get a relative to look after the children.

找一個親戚來照看孩子。

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

戰(zhàn)斗在相對平靜的一段時間之后再次打響。

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

這是一種相對來說比較容易治療的癌癥。

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

他們聊起了倫敦和巴黎兩座城市相比較都有哪些宜居的優(yōu)點。

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

我思考了50個國家相對而言對教育的重視程度。

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

日本利率隨美國利率上浮。

House prices now look cheap relative to earnings...

相對收入而言房價現(xiàn)在看起來比較便宜。

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

“適合”是相對而言的;應(yīng)該常常問一問“適合什么?”

Truth is relative.

真理是相對的。

The pheasant is a close relative of the Guinea hen.

雉與珍珠雞有很近的親緣關(guān)系。

What do you like to do in your spare time?

空閑時你喜歡干什么?

辭典例句

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

善良的陌生人是親戚, 冷漠的親戚是陌生人.

《簡明英漢詞典》

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

遠親不如近鄰.

《現(xiàn)代漢英綜合大詞典》

I have a distant relative in this small town.

在這個小鎮(zhèn)上我有一個遠親.

《現(xiàn)代漢英綜合大詞典》

Motion is absolute while stagnation is relative.

運動是絕對的,而靜止是相對的.

《簡明英漢詞典》

真題例句

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月閱讀原文

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

出自-2017年6月聽力原文

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月聽力原文

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月閱讀原文

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月閱讀原文

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

出自-2010年6月閱讀原文

He had offended his relatives

出自-2010年6月閱讀原文

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月聽力原文

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月聽力原文

We write to communicate with relatives and friends.

出自-2010年12月聽力原文

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月聽力原文

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月四級真題(第二套)閱讀 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月四級真題(第二套)閱讀 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月閱讀原文

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月閱讀原文

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月閱讀原文

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

出自-2017年6月聽力原文

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月閱讀原文

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

出自-2015年12月閱讀原文

They find close relatives more reliable.

出自-2014年6月聽力原文

Mary might as well send her dog to her relative.

出自-2013年12月聽力原文

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

出自-2013年12月聽力原文

"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月六級真題(第二套)閱讀 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月六級真題(第三套)閱讀 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月六級真題(第一套)聽力 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月六級真題(第一套)閱讀 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月六級真題(第一套)聽力 Section C

The third kind of poverty is relative poverty.

2017年6月六級真題(第一套)聽力 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年高考英語全國卷2 閱讀理解 閱讀A 原文

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

2018年高考英語全國卷I 閱讀理解 七選五 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年考研閱讀原文

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

出自-2015年考研閱讀原文

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年考研翻譯原文

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年考研真題(英語二)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

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

2015年考研真題(英語一)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

英英釋義

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"

同義詞辨析

relative, relation

這兩個名詞均有"親戚,親屬"之意。

  • relative: 普通用詞,??膳crelation換用,有時指一般的親戚。
  • relation: 一般指因血統(tǒng)或婚煙關(guān)系形成的親戚。

同義詞

其他釋義

connection

反義詞

adj.相對的

absolute

其他釋義

absolute

最新英語單詞

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