Relative
['relətɪv] or ['rɛlətɪv]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) an animal or plant that bears a relationship to another (as related by common descent or by membership in the same genus).
(noun.) a person related by blood or marriage; 'police are searching for relatives of the deceased'; 'he has distant relations back in New Jersey'.
(adj.) estimated by comparison; not absolute or complete; 'a relative stranger' .
戴维錄入--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Having relation or reference; referring; respecting; standing in connection; pertaining; as, arguments not relative to the subject.
(a.) Arising from relation; resulting from connection with, or reference to, something else; not absolute.
(a.) Indicating or expressing relation; refering to an antecedent; as, a relative pronoun.
(a.) Characterizing or pertaining to chords and keys, which, by reason of the identify of some of their tones, admit of a natural transition from one to the other.
(n.) One who, or that which, relates to, or is considered in its relation to, something else; a relative object or term; one of two object or term; one of two objects directly connected by any relation.
(n.) A person connected by blood or affinity; strictly, one allied by blood; a relation; a kinsman or kinswoman.
(n.) A relative pronoun; a word which relates to, or represents, another word or phrase, called its antecedent; as, the relatives "who", "which", "that".
整理:鲁道夫
同義詞及近義詞：
a. Referring (to something else), not absolute.
n. [1]. Relation, kinsman, connection.[2]. (Gram.) Relative pronoun.
艾维斯編輯
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Referring_to, not_absolute
ANT:Absolute
編輯:路易斯
解釋/意思:
adj. having relation: respecting: not absolute or existing by itself: considered as belonging to something else: (gram.) expressing relation.—n. that which has relation to something else: a relation: (gram.) a pronoun which relates to something before called its antecedent.—adj. Relatī′val (or Rel′atival).—adv. Rel′atively.—ns. Rel′ativeness Relativ′ity.—Relativity of human knowledge the doctrine that the nature and extent of our knowledge is determined not merely by the qualities of the objects known but necessarily by the conditions of our cognitive powers.
整理:诺拉
例句/造句/用法:
- In childhood and youth, with their relative freedom from economic stress, this fact is naked and unconcealed. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- She knows nothing about any relative whatever. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- This gives a much increased field, and also an increased stereoscopic effect, or conception of relative distance, by having the object glasses wider apart than the eyes of the observer. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Indeed, the advantages other than those of relative losses, were on the Confederate side. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Do you mean my single relative--eh? 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- We are not even positive about their relative relationship. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- This allusion to the fate of William Rufus, his Relative, at once incensed and alarmed Prince John. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Your uncle is your nearest male relative, and the head of the family. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- But the relative values of those two different species of food, bread and butcher's meat, are very different in the different periods of agriculture. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Such relative absence of mind means to make our feelings the measure of what is to happen. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- What if her interest in him were not so entirely that of a relative as it had formerly been? 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- She might, perhaps, have gained an absolute, but she would certainly have lost a relative advantage. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Your Grace still believes me desirous of the honour I might obtain by forcing myself on you as your despised relative? 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- She lives with a relative; Christian name, unknown; surname, Peggotty; occupation, seafaring; also of this town. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- It should be sooner, but that I have many things to arrange relative to my coming of age. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- They belong to men who are blood-relatives. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- I address these lines--written in India--to my relatives in England. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- He is not, he is living with his relatives in Germany. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- By a strange fatality Juliet alone escaped, and she to the last waited on her relatives, and smoothed the pillow of death. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Young couples, who had loved long and hopelessly, suddenly found every impediment removed, and wealth pour in from the death of relatives. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- How did she like her relatives? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- When his own relatives came she was treated better. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- A heavenly composure filled my mind, on that Saturday afternoon, as I sat at the window waiting the arrival of my relatives. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- The lawyers told me that there were no relatives alive, and that I was justly entitled to spend the money, so that is how I became rich. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- Whether Shirley had become wearied of her honoured relatives is not known. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- It is just as well that we should do business with the male relatives. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- But are your relatives so very poor? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Well, when a man asks another to his house to stay—to be introduced to his relatives—it is uncommonly like friendship. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- They were merely indulging in the ordinary vivacious chat of relatives who have long been parted in person though not in soul. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- In the large wainscoted parlor too there were constantly pairs of eyes on the watch, and own relatives eager to be sitters-up. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
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