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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Not only had they lost the relative or friend they mourned, but his bones would be missing in the family mausoleum.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I wrote to Mrs. General Epanchin at the time (she is a distant relative of mine), but she did not answer my letter.
-- That is, of course, if you really are a relative of Mrs. Epanchin's, and have not made a little error through well, absence of mind, which is very common to human beings; or, say through a too luxuriant fancy?'
-- 'This gentleman declares, Gavrila Ardalionovitch,' began the man, confidentially and almost familiarly, 'that he is Prince Muishkin and a relative of Madame Epanchin's.
-- The prince had been left an orphan when quite a little child, and Pavlicheff had entrusted him to an old lady, a relative of his own, living in the country, the child needing the fresh air and exercise of country life.
-- Here you are, prince let me introduce you, the last of the Muishkins, a relative of your own, my dear, or at least of the same name.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- HE reader will perhaps understand that at first every-Tthing was so strange about me, and my position was the outcome of such unexpected adventures, that I had no dis- cernment of the relative strangeness of this or that thing.
-- Most striking, perhaps, in their general appearance was the disproportion between the legs of these creatures and the length of their bodies; and yet so relative is our idea of grace my eye became habituated to their forms, and at last I even fell in with their persuasion that my own long thighs were ungainly.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The roof of bark had long since fallen, and mingled with the soil, but the huge logs of pine, which had been hastily thrown together, still pre-served their relative positions, though one angle of the work had given way under the pressure, and threatened a speedy downfall to the remainder of the rustic edifice.
-- We gave them but little breathing time, for they had borne hard upon us in the fight of the morning, and there were few in our party who had not lost friend or relative by their hands.'
-- This change had brought them nigher to each other, however, while it altered their relative positions.
-- The presence of the latter created so many unexpected hopes relative to the sisters that, without a moment's hesita- tion, the young man broke out of his ambush, and sprang forward to join the two principal actors in the scene.
-- The impatient Heyward, in-wardly execrating the cold customs of the savages, which re-quired such sacrifices to appearance, was fain to assume an air of indifference, equal to that maintained by the chief, who was, in truth, a near relative of the afflicted woman.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In this way matters went on for some time, without pro-ducing any material effect on the relative situations of the contending powers.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- However, it was not long before they submitted to this new service, for the onager, being less refractory than the zebra, is frequently put in harness in the mountainous regions of Southern Africa, and it has even been acclimatized in Europe, under zones of a relative coolness.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This action was not lost upon Trent, who, knowing that Richard Swiveller was a mere tool in his hands and knew no more of his designs than he thought proper to communicate, saw that the dwarf perfectly understood their relative position, and fully entered into the character of his friend.
-- In the midst of her grief and tears she was yet careful to conceal their real cause from the old man, for the dead boy had been a grandchild, and left but one aged relative to mourn his premature decay.
-- But the sad scene she had witnessed, was not without its lesson of content and gratitude; of content with the lot which left her health and freedom; and gratitude that she was spared to the one relative and friend she loved, and to live and move in a beautiful world, when so many young creatures as young and full of hope as she were stricken down and gathered to their graves.
-- How every circumstance of her short, eventful life, came thronging into her mind, as they travelled on!Slight incidents, never thought of or remembered until now; faces, seen once and ever since forgotten; words scarcely heeded at the time; scenes, of a year ago and those of yesterday, mixing up and linking themselves together; familiar places shaping themselves out in the darkness from things which, when approached, were, of all others, the most remote and most unlike them; sometimes, a strange confusion in her mind relative to the occasion of her being there, and the place to which she was going, and the people she was with; and imagination suggesting remarks and questions which sounded so plainly in her ears, that she would start, and turn, and be almost tempted to reply; all the fancies and contradictions common in watching and excitement and restless change of place, beset the child.
-- Mr Chuckster alone was left behind greatly to his indignation; for he held the evidence he could have given, relative to Kit's returning to work out the shilling, to be so very material as bearing upon his hypocritical and designing character, that he considered its suppression little better than a compromise of felony.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A relative of mine----" But the colonel would brook no interruption, and went on to tell of the effect of the opium on his brother-in-law's wife.
-- "Is she a relative of his?"
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My eyes soon accustomed themselves to this relative state of darkness.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Do you see, you must not confuse the relative work of action, with the absolute world of art.
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