relation
	英 [rɪ'leɪʃ(ə)n]
美 [rɪ'leʃən]
	    
		中文词源
	
	relation 联系,关联,亲属,亲戚来自 relate,联系,相关。引申诸相关词义。
 
		英文词源
	
	- relation (n.)
 - late 14c., "connection, correspondence;" also "act of telling," from Anglo-French relacioun, Old French relacion "report, connection" (14c.), from Latin relationem (nominative relatio) "a bringing back, restoring; a report, proposition," from relatus (see relate). Meaning "person related by blood or marriage" first attested c. 1500. Stand-alone phrase no relation "not in the same family" is attested by 1930.
 
 
		双语例句
	
	- 1. Watercolour still seems somehow to be the poor relation of oil painting. 
  - 水彩画似乎仍比油画略逊一筹。
  来自柯林斯例句
 
- 2. He had a relation who lived up the road. 
  - 他有个亲戚住在这条马路上。
  来自柯林斯例句
 
- 3. For many software packages, the price bears little relation to cost. 
  - 对于很多软件包来说,价钱和成本没有什么联系。
  来自柯林斯例句
 
- 4. It is a question of the relation of ethics to economics. 
  - 这是一个伦理学和经济学的关系问题。
  来自柯林斯例句
 
- 5. This theory bears no relation to reality. 
  - 这个理论和现实没什么联系。
  来自柯林斯例句