Picture a line drawn between two things, showing that they are not standing alone: this person and that person, this country and that country, this number and that number. Relation names the line itself — how the two sit with each other — never the things at the ends.

可以想成:兩個東西之間畫了一條線,表示它們不是各站各的——這個人跟那個人、這個國家跟那個國家、這個數字跟那個數字。relation 指的是那條線本身,也就是兩邊「怎麼對上」,而不是線兩頭的東西。理解這個字的每個用法,都可以先問:這條線連的是誰跟誰?

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原始詞典資料10 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

relationnoun/ɹɪˈleɪʃ(ə)n/

  • 1

    The manner in which two things may be associated.

    • The relation between diet and health is complex.
    • Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.
  • 2

    A member of one's extended family; a relative.

    • Yes, he's a relation of mine, but only a distant one.
  • 3

    A relationship; the manner in which and tone with which people or states, etc. interact.

    • the foreign relations of the United States
  • 4

    The act of relating a story.

    • Your relation of the events is different from mine.
    • I shall you make relacyon By way of apostrofacyon […] How I, Skelton laureat, Devysed and also wrate Uppon a lewde curate, […]
  • 5

    mathematicssciencesset-theoryA set of ordered tuples.

    • […]Signs are, first of all, physical things: for example, chalk marks on a blackboard, pencil or ink marks on paper, sound waves produced in a human throat. According to Reichenbach, "What makes them signs is the intermediary position they occupy between an object and a sign user, i.e., a person." For a sign to be a sign, or to function as such, it is necessary that the person take account of the object it designates. Thus, anything in nature may or may not be a sign, depending on a person's attitude toward it. A physical thing is a sign when it appears as a substitute for, or representation of, the object for which it stands with respect to the sign user. The three-place relation between sign, object, and sign user is called the sign relation or relation of denotation.
  • 6

    mathematicssciencesset-theoryA set of ordered tuples.

    • Equality is a symmetric relation, while divisibility is not.
  • 7

    computingdatabasesengineeringA set of tuples, implemented as a table in a relational database.

    • This relation uses the customer's social security number as a key.
  • 8

    mathematicssciencesA statement of equality of two products of generators, used in the presentation of a group.

另外 2 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    category-theorycomputingengineeringA subobject of a product of objects.

  • 10

    The act of intercourse.

    • have relations with
    • have sexual relations with

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