名词

1. (人、团体或国家之间的)联系，关系，往来
Relations between people, groups, or countries are contacts between them and the way in which they behave towards each other.

2. (两者之间的)关系，联系，关联
If you talk about the relation of one thing to another, you are talking about the ways in which they are connected.

3. 亲戚;亲属;家庭成员
Your relations are the members of your family.

4. 与…相比
You can talk about something in relation to something else when you want to compare the size, condition, or position of the two things.

5. 关于;涉及
If something is said or done in relation to a subject, it is said or done in connection with that subject.

1. an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together

2. (usually plural) mutual dealings or connections among persons or groups

e.g. international relations

3. the act of sexual procreation between a man and a woman
the man's penis is inserted into the woman's vagina and excited until orgasm and ejaculation occur

Synonym: sexual intercourseintercoursesex actcopulationcoituscoitionsexual congresscongresssexual relationcarnal knowledge

4. (law) the principle that an act done at a later time is deemed by law to have occurred at an earlier time

e.g. his attorney argued for the relation back of the amended complaint to the time the initial complaint was filed

Synonym: relation back

5. an act of narration

e.g. he was the hero according to his own relation
his endless recounting of the incident eventually became unbearable

Synonym: tellingrecounting

6. a person related by blood or marriage

e.g. police are searching for relatives of the deceased
he has distant relations back in New Jersey

Synonym: relative