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relative是什么意思

详细释义

0 a member of your family -- 親戚，親屬
- I don't have many blood relatives (= people related to me by birth rather than by marriage). 我沒有幾個有血緣關係的親戚。
- All her close/distant relatives came to the wedding. 她所有的近親／遠親都來參加她的婚禮了。
1 being judged or measured in comparison with something else -- 相比較而言的；比較的
- We weighed up the relative advantages of driving there or going by train. 我們權衡了一下，看看開車去那裡和乘火車去哪種方式更有利。
- Since I got a job, I've been living in relative comfort (= more comfort than before). 自從我有了工作，日子過得就相對舒適一些了。
2 If something is relative to something else, it changes according to the speed or level of the other thing. -- 按…的比例；與…相應
- The amount of petrol a car uses is relative to its speed. 汽車耗油量和其行駛速度是成比例的。
- Are these documents relative to the discussion? 這些文件和我們討論的問題有關嗎？

The children are being cared for by a relative.
There weren't many people at the funeral - just close family relatives.
I live in Cambridge, but my relatives live up north in Manchester.
It is women who mainly shoulder responsibility for the care of elderly and disabled relatives.
Sundry distant relatives, most of whom I hardly recognized, turned up for my brother's wedding.
The relative cheapness of foreign travel means that more people are going abroad than ever before.
We've lived here for 15 years, but we're relative newcomers to the village.
Now that the civil war is over, relative normality has returned to the south of the country.