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relative

英 ['relətɪv] 美['rɛlətɪv]

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adj. 相对的；有关系的；成比例的
n. 亲戚；相关物；[语] 关系词；亲缘植物

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There's an ancient legend that as long as these eggs are made, evil will not prevail in the world, says Joan Brander, a Canadian egg-painter who has been painting eggs for over 60 years, having learned the art from her Ukrainian relatives.

With Facebook she could keep her relatives up to date on what she was doing.

Whenever she called her parents or other relatives, she always had to think about the time difference so that she wouldn’t wake someone up or call when she knew they were at church.

When your elderly relative needs to enter some sort of long-term care facility—a moment few parents or children approach without fear—what you would like is to have everything made clear.

Russians also get up an hour later on International Women's Day, the day for treating and celebrating female relatives.

He cut back only after a full-scale family intervention (干预), in which relatives told him he'd gained weight.

He had offended his relatives

Social workers and experts on aging offer caregivers and potential caregivers help when arranging for the care of an elderly relative.

Albert Einstein predicted this in 1905, when he introduced the concept of relative time as part of his Special Theory of Relativity

We write to communicate with relatives and friends.

With computers and Internet connections in so many households, colleges, business, people e-mailing friends and relatives all the time—or talking to them in writing in online chat rooms

That lack of curiosity produces a relative lack of knowledge, and the lack of knowledge is difficult if not impossible to compensate for later on.

What has changed, instead, is the relative share adopting different ways of living in early adulthood, with the decline of romantic coupling pushing living at home to the top of a much less uniform list of living arrangements.

That relative strength would be consistent with what was seen in the wider retail industry during the early part of the holiday season.

One relative bright spot for Macy's during the holiday season was the online channel, where it rang up double-digit increases in sales and a 25% increase in the number of orders it filled.

By raising relative demand for clean energy sources, a carbon price would also help align the market return to clean-energy innovation with its social return, spurring the refinement of existing technologies and the development of new ones.

One useful way is to distinguish between three degrees of poverty—extreme poverty,moderate poverty, and relative poverty.

There is an incompatibility in the rate at which these are advancing relative to the way we're digesting it, he said.

Chetty has not yet issued a comprehensive analysis of the relative predictive power of each of these factors.

They find close relatives more reliable.

Mary might as well send her dog to her relative.

Mary is going to get a little dog from one of her relatives.

"There is an incompatibility in the rate at which these are advancing relative to the way we're digesting it," he said.

According to a 2012 survey described in The Atlantic, college reputation ranked lowest in relative importance of attributes in evaluating graduates for hire, beaten out by top factors like internships, employment during college, college major, volunteer e

But we can say that basically a family living in relative poverty has less than a percentage of the average family income.

One relative bright spot for Macy's during the holiday season was the online channel, where it rang up" double-digit" increases in sales and a 25% increase in the number of orders it filled.

Relative poverty is generally considered to be a household income level which is below a given proportion of average family income.

The third kind of poverty is relative poverty.

I was able to buy it a little over a year ago because I had my relatives give me money for my birthday instead of clothes that wouldn't fit.

Whether you're looking at wallpaper or paint, the time, effort and relative expense put into it are significant.

Among the most popular : paternity and kinship testing , which adopted children can use to find their biological relatives and families can use to track down kids put for adoption.

This doesn’t, however, make interpretation merely relative or even pointless.

If left to themselves, such trends will diminish the relative strength of the English language in international education markets as the demand for educational resources in languages, such as Spanish ,Arabic or Mandarin grows and international business process outsourcing in other language such as Japanese, French and German, spreads.

It's not popular to say, but one reason their pay has gone up so much is that CEOs really have upped their game relative to many other workers in the U.S.

This doesn't, however, make interpretation merely relative or even pointless.