relation
英 [rɪ'leɪʃ(ə)n]
美 [rɪ'leʃən]
語源
relation 接触, 付き合い, 親族, 親戚relateから、付き合う、関係する。関連する単語の意味を導き出す。
英語の語源
- relation (n.)
- 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.
例文
- 1. Watercolour still seems somehow to be the poor relation of oil painting.
- 水彩画は油絵よりもやや劣っているようだ。
- 2.He had a relation who lived up the road.
- この道路に親戚が住んでいる。
- 3.For many software packages，the price bears little relation to cost.
- 多くのパッケージにとって、価格とコストは何の関係もありません。
- 4.It is a question of the relation of ethics to economics.
- これは倫理学と経済学の関係問題である。
- 5.This theory bears no relation to reality.
- この理論は現実とは何の関係もない。
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