| 单词 | related |
| 释义 | related (once / 146 pages) adj Things are related when there's some connection or similarity between them. The fact that you caught a cold might be related to the fact that the kids you babysat sneezed and coughed all night long. People are related when they share a family connection, and other things are related by different kinds of connections. One poem is related to another if they come from the same school or movement of poetry, and a boy's dislike of baseball is probably related to the fact that his first coach yelled a lot. The verb relate is at the root of related, from the Latin relatus, "brought back." WORD FAMILYrelated: relatedly, relatedness, unrelated+/interrelate: interrelated, interrelating, interrelation/interrelated: interrelatedness/interrelation: interrelations, interrelationship/interrelationship: interrelationships/relate: interrelate, related, relates, relating, relation, relative/relation: relational, relations, relationship/relational: relationally/relationship: relationships/relative: relatively, relatives, relativise, relativism, relativity, relativize/relativistic: relativistically/relativity: relativistic, relativities/relativize: relativizes/unrelated: unrelatedly, unrelatedness USAGE EXAMPLESBut the judge stopped short of forcing the company to apologise and did not say Chen’s dismissal was related to his gender identity. The Guardian(Jan 03, 2017) “Most people think that illness is related to the organism. That’s only one part of the story,” Powers says. Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) The questioning Monday night was apparently related to the less serious of the two, which concerns gifts from businessmen, according to the media reports. Washington Post(Jan 02, 2017) 1adj being connected either logically or causally or by shared characteristics painting and the related arts school- related activities related to micelle formation is the...ability of detergent actives to congregate at oil-water interfaces Syn|Ant related to affiliated, attached, connected being joined in close association age-relatedchanging (increasing or decreasing) as an individual's age increases bound upclosely or inseparably connected or associated with cognatehaving the same ancestral language cognate, connaterelated in nature coreferentrelated by sharing a symbolic link to a concrete object or an abstraction correlate, correlated, correlativemutually related correspondingaccompanying side by sideclosely related or associated unrelated lacking a logical or causal relation misrelatedmistakenly related orthogonalstatistically unrelated uncorrelatednot varying together 2adj connected by kinship, common origin, or marriage Syn|Ant direct, lineal in a straight unbroken line of descent from parent to child collateral, indirectdescended from a common ancestor but through different lines affinal, affine(anthropology) related by marriage agnate, agnatic, paternalrelated on the father's side akin, blood-related, cognate, consanguine, consanguineal, consanguineous, kinrelated by blood alliedrelated by common characteristics or ancestry descendant, descendentproceeding by descent from an ancestor enate, enatic, maternalrelated on the mother's side kindredrelated by blood or marriage unrelated not connected by kinship unconnectednot connected by birth or family |
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