A：Tell me about your family, Simon. Are you from a big family?
      西蒙，給我們講講你們家的事。你來自一個(gè)大家庭嗎？

B：No, my immediate family is quite small. There are only five of us. My parents, my younger brother and my younger sister. But my parents both come from large families.
      不，我們自己的直系家庭相當(dāng)小，只有五口人，（包括）我的父母，弟弟和妹妹。但是我父母都來自大家庭。

A：How many people are in your extended family?
      你的大家庭中有多少人呢？

relative是什么意思

B：There are too many to count. I suppose, well over 100 people.
      太多了，數(shù)不過來。我想有一百多人吧。

relative的翻譯

A：Do you get to see your family often?
      你常和家里人見過面嗎？

relative的反義詞

B：I see my immediate family every weekend, and I see my extended family about once or twice a year.We usually see each other for Christmas, Easter, and other big celebrations, like weddings.
      我每個(gè)周末都和直系小家庭成員見面。我一年中能見到其他大家庭的成員一或倆次。我們經(jīng)常在圣誕節(jié)，復(fù)活節(jié)和其他大的慶?；顒?dòng)，如婚禮上見面。

A：Have you ever been to a family reunion?
      你參加過家庭聚會(huì)嗎。

B：Actually, I have been to one, but it wasn’t mine! It was one of my friends’. He didn’t want to be theonly boy there, so I went with him to keep him company. This was a long time ago, of course.
      我倒是去過一次。但不是我自己家的聚會(huì)，是我的一個(gè)朋友家的聚會(huì)。他不想成為聚會(huì)上的唯一男孩，所以我去陪他。當(dāng)然了，這也是很久以前的事了。

A：Are many of your relative divorced?
      你的親屬中有很多人離婚嗎？

B：Let me think. I believe it’s just my one uncle. He’s always been a rebel. My grandmother was very religious, so most of my relatives were too scared to get divorced!
      讓我想一下。我想只有我的一個(gè)叔叔離了婚。他一直是個(gè)叛逆者。我奶奶是個(gè)很虔誠的教徒，所以我的大多數(shù)親屬都不敢離婚！

A：Do you have any relatives who are single mothers?
      你的親屬中有單身母親嗎？

B：I have just one-her father is the one who got divorced. Their family is sort of the black sheep of our extended family.
      我只有一個(gè)親屬是單身母親。她的父親也離了婚。他們家是我們大家庭中的另類。

1. 親戚;親屬;家屬
    Your relatives are the members of your family.

    e.g. Do relatives of yours still live in Siberia?...
           你的親屬仍然住在西伯利亞嗎？
    e.g. Get a relative to look after the children.
           找一個(gè)親戚來照看孩子。

2. 相對的
    You use relative to say that something is true to a certain degree, especially when compared with other things of the same kind.

    e.g. The fighting resumed after a period of relative calm...
           戰(zhàn)斗在相對平靜的一段時(shí)間之后再次打響。
    e.g. It is a cancer that can be cured with relative ease...
           這是一種相對來說比較容易治療的癌癥。

3. 相對的;比較而言的
    You use relative when you are comparing the quality or size of two things.

    e.g. They chatted about the relative merits of London and Paris as places to live...
           他們聊起了倫敦和巴黎兩座城市相比較都有哪些宜居的優(yōu)點(diǎn)。
    e.g. I reflected on the relative importance of education in 50 countries.
           我思考了50個(gè)國家相對而言對教育的重視程度。

4. 與…相比;與…有關(guān);涉及;關(guān)于
    Relative to something means with reference to it or in comparison with it.

    e.g. Japanese interest rates rose relative to America's...
           日本利率隨美國利率上浮。
    e.g. House prices now look cheap relative to earnings...
           相對收入而言房價(jià)現(xiàn)在看起來比較便宜。

5. 相對的;比較而言的
    If you say that something is relative, you mean that it needs to be considered and judged in relation to other things.

    e.g. Fitness is relative; one must always ask 'Fit for what?'...
           “適合”是相對而言的;應(yīng)該常常問一問“適合什么？”
    e.g. Truth is relative.
           真理是相對的。

6. 親緣動(dòng)物（或植物、語言、發(fā)明等)
    If one animal, plant, language, or invention is a relative of another, they have both developed from the same type of animal, plant, language, or invention.

    e.g. The pheasant is a close relative of the Guinea hen.
           雉與珍珠雞有很近的親緣關(guān)系。