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relative
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音标：英 ['relətɪv] 美 ['rɛlətɪv]
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解释：
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adj. 相对的；有关系的；成比例的
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n. 亲戚；相关物；[语] 关系词；亲缘植物
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中文词源：
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relative 相关的，相对的，亲属，亲戚来自 relation,联系，关联，亲属，-ive,形容词后缀。
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英文词源：
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relative (n.)
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late 14c., "a relative pronoun," from Old French relatif (13c.), from Late Latin relativus "having reference or relation," from Latin relatus, past participle of referre "to refer" (see refer). Meaning "person in the same family" first recorded 1650s.
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relative (adj.)
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early 15c., "having reference," from Middle French relatif and directly from Late Latin relativus (see relative (n.)). Meaning "compared to each other" is from 1590s; that of "depending on a relationship to something else" is from 1610s.
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双语例句：
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1. An employer can demand written certification that the relative is really ill.
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雇主可以要求出具书面证明，证实员工的亲人确实病了。
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来自柯林斯例句
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2. Economic reform has brought relative wealth to peasant farmers.
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经济改革给农民带来了相对的财富。
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来自柯林斯例句
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3. The person can transfer from wheelchair to seat with relative ease.
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那个人可以比较轻松地从轮椅上移到座位上。
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来自柯林斯例句
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4. The pheasant is a close relative of the Guinea hen.
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雉与珍珠鸡有很近的亲缘关系。
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来自柯林斯例句
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5. The weak dollar means American goods are relative bargains for foreigners.
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美元疲软意味着美国的产品对外国人来说相对便宜。
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来自柯林斯例句
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更多相关例句：
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the relative merits of the two plans
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相比较之下两个计划各自的优点【牛津词典】
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the position of the sun relative to the earth
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太阳与地球的相对位置【牛津词典】
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They now live in relative comfort (= compared with how they lived before) .
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他们现在过得比较舒适。【牛津词典】
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Given the failure of the previous plan, this turned out to be a relative success.
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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】
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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.
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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】
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the facts relative to the case
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与这个案件有关的事实【牛津词典】
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In ‘the man who came ’, ‘who ’ is a relative pronoun and ‘who came ’ is a relative clause .
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在the man who came中，who是关系代词，而who came是关系从句。【牛津词典】
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a close/distant relative
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近 / 远亲【牛津词典】
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her friends and relatives
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她的亲友【牛津词典】
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The ibex is a distant relative of the mountain goat.
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北山羊与石山羊有较远的亲缘关系。【牛津词典】
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Do relatives of yours still live in Siberia?...
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你的亲属仍然住在西伯利亚吗？【柯林斯高阶英语词典】
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Get a relative to look after the children.
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找一个亲戚来照看孩子。【柯林斯高阶英语词典】
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The fighting resumed after a period of relative calm...
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战斗在相对平静的一段时间之后再次打响。【柯林斯高阶英语词典】
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It is a cancer that can be cured with relative ease...
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这是一种相对来说比较容易治疗的癌症。【柯林斯高阶英语词典】
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They chatted about the relative merits of London and Paris as places to live...
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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。【柯林斯高阶英语词典】
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I reflected on the relative importance of education in 50 countries.
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我思考了50个国家相对而言对教育的重视程度。【柯林斯高阶英语词典】
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Japanese interest rates rose relative to America's...
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日本利率随美国利率上浮。【柯林斯高阶英语词典】
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House prices now look cheap relative to earnings...
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相对收入而言房价现在看起来比较便宜。【柯林斯高阶英语词典】
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Fitness is relative; one must always ask 'Fit for what?'...
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“适合”是相对而言的;应该常常问一问“适合什么？”【柯林斯高阶英语词典】
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Truth is relative.
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真理是相对的。【柯林斯高阶英语词典】
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The pheasant is a close relative of the Guinea hen.
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雉与珍珠鸡有很近的亲缘关系。【柯林斯高阶英语词典】
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What do you like to do in your spare time?
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空闲时你喜欢干什么?【辞典例句】
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A stranger who is kind is a relative; an unkind relative is a stranger.
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善良的陌生人是亲戚, 冷漠的亲戚是陌生人.【《简明英汉词典》】
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A distant relative is not as good as a near neighbour.
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远亲不如近邻.【《现代汉英综合大词典》】
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I have a distant relative in this small town.
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在这个小镇上我有一个远亲.【《现代汉英综合大词典》】
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Motion is absolute while stagnation is relative.
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运动是绝对的,而静止是相对的.【《简明英汉词典》】
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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】
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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】
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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】
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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】
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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】
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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】
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He had offended his relatives【出自-2010年6月阅读原文】
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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】
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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】
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We write to communicate with relatives and friends.【出自-2010年12月听力原文】
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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】
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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】
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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】
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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】
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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】
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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】
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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】
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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】
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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】
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They find close relatives more reliable.【出自-2014年6月听力原文】
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Mary might as well send her dog to her relative.【出自-2013年12月听力原文】
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Mary is going to get a little dog from one of her relatives.【出自-2013年12月听力原文】
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"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】
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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】
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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】
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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】
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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】
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The third kind of poverty is relative poverty.【2017年6月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section C】
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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】
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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】
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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】
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This doesn’t, however, make interpretation merely relative or even pointless.【出自-2015年考研阅读原文
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