late 14c., "connection, correspondence;" also "act of telling," from Anglo-French relacioun, Old French relacion "report, connection" (14c.), from Latin relationem (nominative relatio) "a bringing back, restoring; a report, proposition," from relatus (see relate). Meaning "person related by blood or marriage" first attested c. 1500. Stand-alone phrase no relation "not in the same family" is attested by 1930.
雙語例句
1. Watercolour still seems somehow to be the poor relation of oil painting.
水彩畫似乎仍比油畫略遜一籌。
來自柯林斯例句
2. He had a relation who lived up the road.
他有個親戚住在這條馬路上。
來自柯林斯例句
3. For many software packages, the price bears little relation to cost.
對于很多軟件包來說，價錢和成本沒有什么聯(lián)系。
來自柯林斯例句
4. It is a question of the relation of ethics to economics.