relation是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 关系， 联系； 亲属， 亲戚，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Countess Nordston and Levin got into that relation with one another not seldom seen in society, when two persons, who remain externally on friendly terms, despise each other to such a degree that they cannot even take each other seriously, and cannot even be offended by each other.
-- He did not know that his mode of behavior in relation to Kitty had a definite character, that it is courting young girls with no intention of marriage, and that such courting is one of the evil actions common among brilliant young men such as he was.
-- Madame Stahl learned later on that Varenka was not her own child, but she went on bringing her up, especially as very soon afterwards Varenka had not a relation of her own living.
-- "What sense is there in murdering a man in order to define one's relation to a guilty wife and son?
-- She recalled the partly sincere, though greatly exaggerated, role of the mother living for her child, which she had taken up of late years, and she felt with joy that in the plight in which she found herself she had a support, quite apart from her relation to her husband or to Vronsky.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He felt an instant and complete comradeship with her, a relation free from the fencing and posing of his struggle with Madeline.
-- Only, when I get to thinking about the way most of these damned profs don't even know what he's up to--" Martin was off again, and if Leora did not altogether understand the relation of the synthesis of antibodies to the work of Arrhenius, yet she listened with comfortable pleasure in his zeal, with none of Madeline Fox's gently corrective admonitions.
-- He had no uplifted moments when he saw himself in relation to the whole world--if indeed he realized that there was a deal of the world besides himself.
-- He announced that antibodies, excepting antitoxin, had no relation to the immune state of an animal, and while he himself was being ragingly denounced in the small but hectic world of scientists, he dealt calmly and most brutally with Yersin's and Marmorek's theories of sera.
-- The curves of the relation of hemolysin production to age of culture are illuminating.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was cautious in his answer, and said that, of course, as he could not get on without a secretary, it would be better to be paying a salary to a relation than to a stranger, if only the former were fitted for the duties (as though there could be doubt of your being fitted!)
-- 'Is he a relation of yours, too?'
-- 'I am afraid,' I would say, 'a relation of mine lost twenty-five roubles the other day through a false note,' and then I'd tell them the whole sto-ry.
-- I am not intrusive; I used to get on all right with card-sharpers, and I never bored Prince Svirbey, a great personage who is a distant relation of mine, and I could write about Rapha-el's Madonna in Madam Prilukov's album, and I never left Marfa Petrovna's side for seven years, and I used to stay the night at Viazemsky's house in the Hay Market in the old days, and I may go up in a balloon with Berg, perhaps.'
-- 'Avdotya Romanovna,' Luzhin declared huffily, 'your words are of too much consequence to me; I will say more, they are offensive in view of the position I have the hon-our to occupy in relation to you.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mealy's father was awaterman, who had the additional distinction of being a fireman,and was engaged as such at one of the large theatres; where someyoung relation of Mealy's- I think his little sister- did Imps in thePantomimes.
-- I had resolved to run away.- To go, by some means or other, downinto the country, to the only relation I had in the world, and tell mystory to my aunt, Miss Betsey.
-- On these occasions Mr. Dick never travelled without a leatherwriting-desk, containing a supply of stationery and the Memorial;in relation to which document he had a notion that time wasbeginning to press now, and that it really must be got out of hand.
-- 'Well, sir, we've got a young relation ofhers here, under articles to us, that has as elegant a taste in thedress-making business- I assure you I don't believe there's aduchess in England can touch her.'
-- He told me he washappy when I had paid my homage to Mrs. Waterbrook, presentedme, with much ceremony, to a very awful lady in a black velvetdress, and a great black velvet hat, whom I remember as lookinglike a near relation of Hamlet's- say his aunt.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He did not covet the post relatively to the farm: in relation to herself, as beloved by him and unmarried to another, he had coveted it.
-- The force of the farmer's threats lay in their relation to a circumstance known at present only to herself: her lover was coming back to Weatherbury in the course of the very next day or two.
-- Indeed, I think I've heard Jan Coggan say that a relation of his knew Tom King, Turpin's friend, quite well."
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Or, once more, there are other mercenary natures who never do a kindness to a friend or a relation simply because these have a claim upon them, while a service done to a stranger brings its reward to self-love.
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