relative

noun

1. an animal or plant that bears a relationship to another (as related by common descent or by membership in the same genus)

Synonym: congenercongenatorcongeneric

2. a person related by blood or marriage

e.g. police are searching for relatives of the deceased
he has distant relations back in New Jersey

Synonym: relation

adj

1. estimated by comparison
not absolute or complete

e.g. a relative stranger

Synonym: comparative

2. properly related in size or degree or other measurable characteristics
usually followed by `to'

e.g. the punishment ought to be proportional to the crime
earnings relative to production

Synonym: proportional

1. 亲戚;亲属;家属
Your relatives are the members of your family.

e.g. Do relatives of yours still live in Siberia?...
你的亲属仍然住在西伯利亚吗？
e.g. Get a relative to look after the children.
找一个亲戚来照看孩子。

2. 相对的
You use relative to say that something is true to a certain degree, especially when compared with other things of the same kind.

e.g. The fighting resumed after a period of relative calm...
战斗在相对平静的一段时间之后再次打响。
e.g. It is a cancer that can be cured with relative ease...
这是一种相对来说比较容易治疗的癌症。

3. 相对的;比较而言的
You use relative when you are comparing the quality or size of two things.

e.g. They chatted about the relative merits of London and Paris as places to live...
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。
e.g. I reflected on the relative importance of education in 50 countries.
我思考了50个国家相对而言对教育的重视程度。

4. 与…相比;与…有关;涉及;关于
Relative to something means with reference to it or in comparison with it.

relative的反义词

e.g. Japanese interest rates rose relative to America's...
日本利率随美国利率上浮。
e.g. House prices now look cheap relative to earnings...
相对收入而言房价现在看起来比较便宜。

5. 相对的;比较而言的
If you say that something is relative, you mean that it needs to be considered and judged in relation to other things.

e.g. Fitness is relative; one must always ask 'Fit for what?'...
“适合”是相对而言的;应该常常问一问“适合什么？”
e.g. Truth is relative.
真理是相对的。

6. 亲缘动物（或植物、语言、发明等)
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.

e.g. The pheasant is a close relative of the Guinea hen.
雉与珍珠鸡有很近的亲缘关系。

1. 亲戚：课文是Patricia关于自己家庭的一段叙述,叙述中还提到了他们一家的假日安排以及Patricia来自西班牙的Nanna. 通过学习本文,学生应该学会描述自己的家庭. 通过比较澳大利亚和中国的家庭模式,了解家庭(family)和亲戚(relative)的含义.

2. 相对的：总之,对于皮肤感受性而言,不是相对的(relative)恰好能被觉察到的距离差别保持不变,而是绝对的(absolute)恰好能被觉察到的距离差别保持不变. 这一规律的例外可以下述事实来解释,即在长距离中,我们对相邻皮肤点的分辨精细度有相当大的变化.