n. 关系, 联系, 叙述, 故事, 家属, 亲戚

[计] 关系

[医] 关系

Relation \Re*la"tion\ (r?-l?"sh?n), n. [F. relation, L. relatio.
See {Relate}.]
1. The act of relating or telling; also, that which is
related; recital; account; narration; narrative; as, the
relation of historical events.

??????oet's relation doth well figure them. --Bacon.

2. The state of being related or of referring; what is
apprehended as appertaining to a being or quality, by
considering it in its bearing upon something else;
relative quality or condition; the being such and such
with regard or respect to some other thing; connection;
as, the relation of experience to knowledge; the relation
of master to servant.

Any sort of connection which is perceived or
imagined between two or more things, or any
comparison which is made by the mind, is a relation.
--I. Taylor.

3. Reference; respect; regard.

I have been importuned to make some observations on
this art in relation to its agreement with poetry.
--Dryden.

4. Connection by consanguinity or affinity; kinship;
relationship; as, the relation of parents and children.

Relations dear, and all the charities
Of father, son, and brother, first were known.
--Milton.

5. A person connected by cosanguinity or affinity; a
relative; a kinsman or kinswoman.

For me . . . my relation does not care a rush. --Ld.
Lytton.

6. (Law)
(a) The carrying back, and giving effect or operation to,
an act or proceeding frrom some previous date or time,
by a sort of fiction, as if it had happened or begun
at that time. In such case the act is said to take
effect by relation.
(b) The act of a relator at whose instance a suit is
begun. --Wharton. Burrill.

Syn: Recital; rehearsal; narration; account; narrative; tale;
detail; description; kindred; kinship; consanguinity;
affinity; kinsman; kinswoman.