A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
相对
Relative
Where there's a will - there's a relative!
哪里有遗嘱，哪里就有亲戚!
Whoever is my relative, I will not be nice to them.
不管谁是我的亲戚，我都不会对他们好。
Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
政治和权力是一个相对有影响力的领域。
I can't think of any relatives that ever went into science.
我想不出有哪个亲戚从事过科学研究。
A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.
至亲至爱的朋友迟早会像亲戚一样无用。
I don't deal at all well with the relative amount of stuff I have to face already.
我根本不能很好地处理我已经要面对的相对数量的事情。
At the lodge the chief gave me many particulars which were relative to the late visit of the Spaniards.
在分会里，首领给我讲了许多有关西班牙人最近来访的详细情况。
Everything is relative. If you want to understand a problem you look at its cause. You don’t look at its manifestation.
一切都是相对的。如果你想了解一个问题，你要看它的起因。你不看它的表现。
The aim of our studies is to prove that color is the most relative means of artistic expression, that we never really perceive what color is physically.
我们研究的目的是要证明色彩是最相对的艺术表现手段，我们从来没有真正感知到色彩是什么。
Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.
每一种经验都是矛盾的，因为它意味着绝对，但又是相对的;在某种程度上，它总是超越它自己，但从不逃脱它自己。
There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative.
有一件事是教授可以绝对肯定的:几乎每一个进入大学的学生都相信，或者说他相信，真理是相对的。
Of course, relative citation frequencies are no measure of relative importance. Who has not aspired to write a paper so fundamental that very soon it is known to everyone and cited by no one?
当然，相对引用频率并不能衡量相对重要性。谁没有想过要写一篇如此基础的论文，以至于很快大家都知道了，却没有人引用它呢?
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沿着这个主题，再读几句。
It doesn't matter much where your company sits in its industry ecosystem, nor how vertically or horizontally integrated it is - what matters is its relative 'share of customer value' in the final product or solution, and its cost of producing that value.
你的公司在其行业生态系统中所处的位置并不重要，垂直或水平的整合程度也不重要——重要的是它在最终产品或解决方案中所占的相对“客户价值份额”，以及产生该价值的成本。
I related to his disillusionment. Thinking that he was going for this big dream. Then he kind of saw through it all at one point and went back home. Then he started a bender, which I can relate to of course.
我谈到了他的幻灭。以为他在追求一个伟大的梦想。然后他似乎一下子看穿了这一切，然后回家了。然后他开始酗酒，我当然可以理解。
A life lesson for me is, how do you muster the courage to take on a new risk? Whether it's starting up a business or taking on a new project or expedition. I think the risks that we take are all relative to the risk-taker.
对我来说，人生的一课就是，你如何鼓起勇气去承担新的风险?无论是创业还是开始一个新项目或探险。我认为我们所承担的风险都与冒险者有关。