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N-COUNT
親戚;親屬;家屬
Your relatives are the members of your family.
例句
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。
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ADJ
相對的
You use relative to say that something is true to a certain degree, especially when compared with other things of the same kind.
例句
The fighting resumed after a period of relative calm...
戰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。
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ADJ
相對的;比較而言的
You use relative when you are comparing the quality or size of two things.
例句
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。
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PREP-PHRASE
與…相比;與…有關;涉及;關于
Relative to something means with reference to it or in comparison with it.
例句
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在看起來比較便宜。
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ADJ-GRADED
相對的;比較而言的
If you say that something is relative, you mean that it needs to be considered and judged in relation to other things.
例句
Fitness is relative; one must always ask 'Fit for what?'...
“適合”是相對而言的;應該常常問一問“適合什么？”
Truth is relative.
真理是相對的。
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N-COUNT
親緣動物（或植物、語言、發明等)
If one animal, plant, language, or invention is a relative of another, they have both developed from the same type of animal, plant, language, or invention.
例句
The pheasant is a close relative of the Guinea hen.
雉與珍珠雞有很近的親緣關系。