relative是什么意思

详细释义

• 0 a member of your family -- 亲戚，亲属

  • I don't have many blood relatives (= people related to me by birth rather than by marriage). 我没有几个有血缘关系的亲戚。

  • All her close/distant relatives came to the wedding. 她所有的近亲／远亲都来参加她的婚礼了。

• 1 being judged or measured in comparison with something else -- 相比较而言的；比较的

  • We weighed up the relative advantages of driving there or going by train. 我们权衡了一下，看看开车去那儿和乘火车去哪种方式更有利。

  • Since I got a job, I've been living in relative comfort (= more comfort than before). 自从我有了工作，日子过得就相对舒适一些了。

• 2 If something is relative to something else, it changes according to the speed or level of the other thing. -- 按…的比例；与…相应

  • The amount of petrol a car uses is relative to its speed. 汽车耗油量和其行驶速度是成比例的。

  • Are these documents relative to the discussion? 这些文件和我们讨论的问题有关吗？