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。
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- de Beauseant's ball; he guessed the relation between Maxime and Mme.
-- Doubtless she will know the secret of the criminal relation between that handsome woman and the old rat without a tail.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I do not know that the relation of my disasters will be useful to you; yet, when I reflect that you are pursuing the same course, exposing yourself to the same dangers which have rendered me what I am, I imag-ine that you may deduce an apt moral from my tale, one that may direct you if you succeed in your undertaking and console you in case of failure.
-- No word, no expression could body forth the kind of relation in which she stood to me my more than sister, since till death she was to be mine only.
-- I well knew that if any other had communicat-ed such a relation to me, I should have looked upon it as the ravings of insanity.
-- I am an unfortunate and deserted creature, I look around and I have no relation or friend upon earth.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Biddy was Mr. Wopsle's great-aunt's granddaughter; I confess myself quite unequal to the working out of the problem, what relation she was to Mr. Wopsle.
-- This was not a very ceremonious way of rendering homage to a patron saint, but I believe Old Clem stood in that relation towards smiths.
-- If I had taken ten times as many glasses of wine as I had, I should have known that he never had stood in that relation towards me, and should in my heart of hearts have repudiated the idea.
-- "What relation is she to Miss Havisham?"
-- He holds the same relation towards numbers of people, and it might easily arise.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The author of these Travels, Mr. Lemuel Gulliver, is my an-cient and intimate friend; there is likewise some relation between us on the mother's side.
-- Thus much I thought proper to tell you in relation toyourself, and to the trust I reposed in you.
-- He was by no means satisfied with the relation I gave him of the manner I came into his kingdom, but thought it a story concerted between Glum-dalclitch and her father, who had taught me a set of words to make me sell at a better price.
-- Upon what I said in relation to our courts of justice, his majesty desired to be satisfied in several points: and this I was the better able to do, having been formerly almost ruined by a long suit in chancery, which was decreed for me with costs.
-- He entertained me with great kindness, observing me not to look wildly, or talk inconsistently: and, when we were left alone, desired I would give him a relation of my travels, and by what accident I came to be set adrift, in that monstrous wooden chest.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Hem!There's a sanctity in this relation of life,' said Mr. Bounderby, 'and and it must be kept up.'
-- Filled with these thoughts so filled that he had an unwholesome sense of growing larger, of being placed in some new and diseased relation towards the objects among which he passed, of seeing the iris round every misty light turn red he went home for shelter.
-- He wouldn't get it either, if he hadn't a friend and relation at court, ma'am!'
-- 'I only hope, ma'am,' pursued Bitzer, 'that his friend and relation may not supply him with the means of carrying on.
-- 'In my dependent relation towards him, I have known him ten years.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Every step I took confirmed me in my belief, and I began already to build castles in the air in relation to my marriage with my pretty little cousin.
-- He was therefore able to give an exact relation of the situation.
-- While breakfast was in hand, and between the sips of warm tea, I asked my uncle if he had any idea of how we now stood in relation to the world above.
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