| 单词 | relative |
| 释义 | relative (relətɪv ) Word forms: relatives 1. countable noun B1 Your relatives are the members of your family. Do relatives of yours still live in Siberia? Get a relative to look after the children. Synonyms: relation, connection, kinsman or woman or person, member of your or the family 2. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun] You use relative to say that something is true to a certain degree, especially when compared with other things of the same kind. The fighting resumed after a period of relative calm. It is a cancer that can be cured with relative ease. Pedestrian zones mean that children can play in relative safety. Synonyms: comparative, considerable, reasonable, moderate 3. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun] You use relative when you are comparing the quality or size of two things. They chatted about the relative merits of London and Paris as places to live. I reflected on the relative importance of education in 50 countries. ...the relative strength of the central and state governments. Synonyms: corresponding, comparable, respective, comparative 4. relative to sth phrase Relative to something means with reference to it or in comparison with it. Japanese interest rates rose relative to America's. House prices now look cheap relative to earnings. The satellite remains in one spot relative to the earth's surface. 5. adjective [usually verb-link ADJECTIVE] If you say that something is relative, you mean that it needs to be considered and judged in relation to other things. Fitness is relative; one must always ask 'Fit for what?' Truth is relative. 6. countable noun 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. The pheasant is a close relative of the Guinea hen. [+ of] Quotations: Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himselfPrejudices When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity Collocations: close relative Having lost close relatives to smoking, it is not an industry I would choose to invest in. Times, Sunday Times (2016) Last year a further 1,000 gave their kidneys to a close relative or friend known to be a good match. Times, Sunday Times (2012) It has long been known that chimps are genetically man's closest relative. Times, Sunday Times (2006) She was searching for long-lost relatives. Times, Sunday Times (2006) He could be a long-lost relative. The Sun (2013) The spooky clan meets up with long-lost relatives. Times, Sunday Times (2006) Across ten important areas, such as air pollution and biodiversity, we have estimated the relative cost of various problems in the year 1900. Times, Sunday Times At the start, however, commissions and charges remained the same or even went up for small investors, reflecting the higher relative cost of small transactions. Times, Sunday Times As a result, the competitive advantage that a weak currency provides has been offset by the higher relative cost of production. Times, Sunday Times No one knows what the relative cost of oil, gas and wood pellets will be in five years' time. Times, Sunday Times Getting rid of his troublesome relative cost the firm almost 5m. Times, Sunday Times The plates move at a relative rate of over per year at a somewhat oblique angle to the subduction zone. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This typically results from a relative rate of the image with respect to the detector (e.g., caused by movement in the scene). Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The bimolecular rate constants of disappearance of are an order of magnitude lower than the relative rate constants for binary collisions. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He did this via the relative rate test and then, using this data, he was able to construct a phylogeny using various methods, including parsimony and maximum likelihood. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This was later confirmed with the relative rate test, however the theory was that this was because of metabolic rate and a lower body temperature in birds. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They got different results because they applied my relative risk to entirely different starting points. Times, Sunday Times The first goes back to how bad we tend to be at assessing relative risk. Times,Sunday Times The study also concluded that each additional cup of coffee reduced the relative risk of developing the disease by 8 per cent. Times, Sunday Times However, the 'relative risk reduction', or difference between the two groups, would be 50 per cent. Times, Sunday Times This makes it harder for investors to gauge the relative risk levels of different institutions. Times, Sunday Times The unit value of a fishery resource is positively linked, like any other good, to its relative scarcity rather than to its abundance. The Times Literary Supplement (2013) Hence, presumably, the relative scarcity of truly great ambient albums. Times, Sunday Times (2010) A relative scarcity of firms producing the high-quality product is one of the predictions of this model. Microeconomics: Price Theory in Practice (1995) Using computers to identify past trends in relative share price movements and take investment positions on the assumption those trends will continue has been proved costly. Times, Sunday Times Load allocations provide a framework for determining the relative share of natural sources and human sources of pollution. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Depending on their contribution they could use the facilities and share the profit according to the relative share they contributed. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 As national economy develops, the relative share of employment among the agricultural industry, and the service industry change dramatically. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 One of your favourite relatives shares an exciting secret only with you. The Sun But to conclude from this relative silence or paucity of some surviving texts that other writers disagreed with the extant texts would be sheer speculation. Christianity Today The relative silence of the countryside, or the background noises of the city, become a backdrop for our thoughts. Times, Sunday Times Meanwhile, poor and working class citizens of all colors have continued to suffer in relative silence. The Times Literary Supplement They later criticized the relative silence in the media and the political establishment following the revelation. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Our response has been to balance moments of architectural expression with others of relative silence. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Narrow profit maximisation at least had the virtue of relative simplicity. Times,Sunday Times The keys to the jet engine's success, as with other combustion engines, are its relative simplicity and its astonishing power-toweight ratio. Times, Sunday Times But it represents a return to relative simplicity, and amen to that. Times, Sunday Times The actors play their parts and further the plot as narrators, slipping between multiple duties with relative simplicity and assurance. Times, Sunday Times Investment trusts are more complex than unit trusts and the relative simplicity of the latter helps to explain their greater popularity. Times, Sunday Times The country has a significant network of private medical testing labs which enabled health authorities to react with relative speed. Times,Sunday Times The law states that the greater the distance between any two galaxies, the greater their relative speed of separation. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Helical scans increase the relative speed of the tape surface over the head. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Hence, one can calculate the relative speed of each arm of our galaxy. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The system was entirely mechanical, and worked by measuring the relative speed of two spinning disks. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A year in which lots of new managers come in tends to be followed by a period of relative stability. Times, Sunday Times The latest falls have [come] after a period of relative stability since the end of the first quarter. Times, Sunday Times The company prides itself on the relative stability of its service, and has convinced millions of users, including some businesses, to use the system daily to make calls. Times, Sunday Times It went through a painful restructuring in 2015 and then years of boardroom coups, but had been enjoying a period of relative stability before this summer. Times,Sunday Times Others preferred to remember the relative stability of his years in power and forget the horrors, or were simply too young to remember this ghost from the past. Times, Sunday Times Even a reputable journalist wouldn't accept a 4,000 freebie from a relative stranger without suspecting that there was no free lunch. Times, Sunday Times He's a relative stranger to the world of red carpets, big-money romcoms and high-paying, high-octane action flicks. Times, Sunday Times Part of therapy involves redirecting some of your childhood emotions — adoration, love, attachment — to the relative stranger in the chair opposite. Times, Sunday Times There he was, my first love, grinning at me next to these two relative strangers in some faraway land. Times, Sunday Times And when he did reveal his turmoil, it had been to relative strangers, not to her. Christianity Today The biggest difference lies in their relative success. Times, Sunday Times Her relative success, though, comes with its challenges. Times, Sunday Times All in all, it has been a relative success. Times,Sunday Times Researchers will compare the relative success of each group to find out whether one method works better than the other. Smithsonian Mag The relative success and failures of different initiatives in the midst of this health crisis have longer-term implications. Times,Sunday Times The pound shows no strength against the euro in currency markets and has lost about a third of its relative value in recent years. Times, Sunday Times Each has a purpose, but those purposes are too different to determine a relative value. Christianity Today In other words, the relative value of your property compared with others has decreased. Times, Sunday Times Our own productions have only a relative value. Christianity Today But despite the relative value of their possessions, one in three felt that paying for insurance was an unnecessary expense. Times, Sunday Times The review found that the family's relative wealth and positive image led staff to underestimate the risk. The Sun Most of the world's population would scarcely be able to distinguish between the relative wealth of bankers and the rest of us. Times, Sunday Times Instead, their relative wealth enabled them to take foreign holidays and compare how others lived. Times, Sunday Times It turns out that relative wealth means more to humans than absolute numbers, and not just humans. Times, Sunday Times In expected utility theory, the individual only cares about absolute wealth, not relative wealth in any given situation. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The relative weight of these elements varies from preacher to preacher and sermon to sermon. Christianity Today Disagreement about the relative weight to be attributed to the competing interests was different: that was a matter which the certificate could properly address, by properly explained and solid reasons. Times, Sunday Times I went around the room and asked everyone their opinion on the relative weight of the two stories. Globe and Mail This 100-point test carries a certain relative weight interpreted by the institution the student applies for. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A fish of normal weight has a relative weight of 100 percent. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 His face, relative youth and unaffected humility signal freshness, difference, challenge. Times, Sunday Times It's probably only his relative youth that has prevented anyone from calling him a national treasure. Times, Sunday Times Despite his relative youth, he was already going bald. Times, Sunday Times It was not the crime of the century, just a reminder of his relative youth and lack of managerial experiences. Times, Sunday Times What was notable was the relative youth of some of the recipients. Times, Sunday Times This weekend I am taking calls from worried relatives on the other side of the Atlantic. Times, Sunday Times (2016) The 41-year-old mum and her son were discovered before midday at a bungalow after a worried relative contacted cops. The Sun (2013) After five months, worried relatives took her to another hospital and she was diagnosed with skin cancer. The Sun (2014) Translations: Chinese: 亲戚, 相对的 Japanese: 親戚, 相対的な |
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