relative to

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relative to 的定义

  1. Correspondent or proportionate to, as in Relative to its size, Boston has a great many universities, or It's important to get all the facts relative to the collision. Another form of this idiom is in or with relation to, meaning “in reference or with regard to,” as in Demand is high in relation to supply, or That argument changes nothing with relation to our plans for hiring workers. The usages with relative date from the second half of the 1700s, those with relation from the late 1500s.

relative to 近义词

relative to

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  1. What 15 months in a federal correction institution will be like, according to a man who counsels to-be inmates.
  2. But relative to centuries past, America is a marvel of domestic tranquility.
  3. That means the F-35 will be almost entirely reliant on long-range air-to-air missiles.
  4. It will still carry a pair of Raytheon AIM-120 AMRAAM long-range air-to-air missiles and a pair of bombs.
  5. The lack of a gun is not likely to be a major problem for close-in air-to-air dogfights against other jets.
  6. Each day she resolved, "To-morrow I will tell Felipe;" and when to-morrow came, she put it off again.
  7. All the operations of her brain related themselves somehow to to-morrow afternoon.
  8. "Buy something for your wife that-is-to-be," he said to his grand-nephew, as he handed him the folded paper.
  9. Something remote and ancient stirred in her, something that was not of herself To-day, something half primitive, half barbaric.
  10. To-day I'm more dead than alive, as we had a lesson from him yesterday that lasted four hours.