B1 a member of your family亲戚,亲属
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The children are being cared for by a relative.
There weren't many people at the funeral - just close family relatives.
I live in Cambridge, but my relatives live up north in Manchester.
It is women who mainly shoulder responsibility for the care of elderly and disabled relatives.
Sundry distant relatives, most of whom I hardly recognized, turned up for my brother's wedding.
C1 being judged or measured in comparison with something else相比较而言的;比较的
true to a particular degree when compared with other things相对的;相比之下有的
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The relative cheapness of foreign travel means that more people are going abroad than ever before.
We've lived here for 15 years, but we're relative newcomers to the village.
Now that the civil war is over, relative normality has returned to the south of the country.
He rose from relative obscurity to worldwide recognition.
There is a chart on the classroom wall showing the relative heights of all the children.
C2 If something is relative to something else, it changes according to the speed or level of the other thing.按…的比例;与…相应
If something is relative to a particular subject, it is connected with it.与…相关;有关;涉及
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