relative是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 相对的， 比较的， 有关系的n. 亲戚， 关系词，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Do you suppose,' Mr. Lorry went on, with a laughing twinkle in his bright eye, as it looked kindly at her, 'that Doctor Manette has any theory of his own, preserved through all those years, relative to the cause of his being so oppressed; perhaps, even to the name of his oppressor?'
-- He was saying the affectionate word, however, with a far more grudging condescension and patronage than he could have shown if their relative merits and positions had been reversed (which is invariably the case, all the world over), when Mr. Cruncher, touching him on the shoulder, hoarse-ly and unexpectedly interposed with the following singular question: 'I say!Might I ask the favour?
-- 'I have a cousin, an only relative and an orphan, like my-self, whom I love very dearly.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The conversation did not flag for an instant, so that the princess, who always kept in reserve, in case a subject should be lacking, two heavy guns--the relative advantages of classical and of modern education, and universal military service--had not to move out either of them, while Countess Nordston had not a chance of chaffing Levin.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He made himself known as a London detective, told his business at Bombay, and the position of affairs relative to the supposed robber, and nervously asked if a warrant had arrived from London.
-- Aouda was a relative of this great man, and it was his cousin, Jeejeeh, whom she hoped to join at Hong Kong.
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：
-- The crimes of these men are of course relative and varied; for the most part they seek in very varied ways the destruction of the present for the sake of the better.
-- I saw the same thing with a relative of my own not long ago 芒聙娄 nearly a pint of blood, all in a minute芒聙娄.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For myself, I felt so much self-reproach andcontrition for my part in what had happened, that nothing wouldhave enabled me to keep back my tears but the fear that Steerforth,who often looked at me, I saw, might think it unfriendly- or, Ishould rather say, considering our relative ages, and the feelingwith which I regarded him, undutiful- if I showed the emotionwhich distressed me.
-- She repeated this several timesnext day, in the intervals of our arranging for the transmission ofmy clothes and books from Mr. Wickfield's; relative to which, andto all my late holiday, I wrote a long letter to Agnes, of which myaunt took charge.
-- 340CHAPTER XXVGood and Bad AngelsI WAS going out at my door on the morning after that deplorableday of headache, sickness, and repentance, with an odd confusionin my mind relative to the date of my dinner-party as if a body ofTitans had taken an enormous lever and pushed the day beforeyesterday some months back, when I saw a ticket-porter comingupstairs, with a letter in his hand.
-- Ishould not have been averse to do so, but that I imagined Idetected trouble, and calculation relative to the extent of the coldmeat, in Mrs. Micawber's eye.
-- Detailed instructions were added relative to the address of areply, which, although they betrayed the intervention of severalhands, and made it difficult to arrive at any very probableconclusion in reference to her place of concealment, made it at leastnot unlikely that she had written from that spot where she wasstated to have been seen.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'That is as formidable an image as you could present, Harriet; and if I thought I should ever be like Miss Bates!so silly so satisfied so smiling so prosing so undistin-guishing and unfastidious and so apt to tell every thing relative to every body about me, I would marry to-morrow.
-- She should then have heard more: Mrs. Weston would speak to her, with a degree of unreserve which she would not haz-ard with Isabella; and, she really believed, would scarcely try to conceal any thing relative to the Churchills from her, excepting those views on the young man, of which her own imagination had already given her such instinctive knowl-edge.
-- ' with many other relative questions, all answered with patient politeness.
-- While he spoke, Emma's mind was most busy, and, with all the wonderful velocity of thought, had been able and yet without losing a word to catch and comprehend the exact truth of the whole; to see that Harriet's hopes had been entirely groundless, a mistake, a delusion, as complete a delusion as any of her own that Harriet was nothing; that she was every thing herself; that what she had been say-ing relative to Harriet had been all taken as the language of her own feelings; and that her agitation, her doubts, her reluctance, her discouragement, had been all received as discouragement from herself. And not only was there time for these convictions, with all their glow of attendant happiness; there was time also to rejoice that Harriet's se-cret had not escaped her, and to resolve that it need not, and should not. It was all the service she could now render her poor friend; for as to any of that heroism of sentiment which might have prompted her to entreat him to transfer his affection from herself to Harriet, as infinitely the most worthy of the two or even the more simple sublimity of resolving to refuse him at once and for ever, without vouch-safing any motive, because he could not marry them both, Emma had it not.
-- From our relative situation, those attentions were her due, and were felt to be so. Whether Miss Woodhouse began really to understand me before the expiration of that fortnight, I 536 Emmacannot say; when I called to take leave of her, I remember that I was within a moment of confessing the truth, and I then fancied she was not without suspicion; but I have no doubt of her having since detected me, at least in some de-gree. She may not have surmised the whole, but her quickness must have penetrated a part.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But Oak had found himself so occupied, and was full of so many cares relative to those portions of Boldwood's flocks that were not disposed of, that Bathsheba, without telling Oak or anybody, resolved to drive home herself, as she had many times done from Casterbridge Market, and trust to her good angel for performing the journey unmolested.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Each one regarded the others with indifference, tempered by suspicion; it was a natural result of their relative positions.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I felt the greatest ardour for virtue rise with-in me, and abhorrence for vice, as far as I understood the signification of those terms, relative as they were, as I ap-plied them, to pleasure and pain alone.
-- Among the lessons that Felix had bestowed upon Safie, geography had not been omitted; I had learned from these the relative situations of the different countries of the earth.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Their young brother Dallas was their darling and the only relative themaiden ladies had in the world.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A folded piece of paper in one of them attracting my attention, I opened it and found it to be the play-bill I had received from Joe, relative to the celebrated provincial amateur of Roscian renown.
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