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Relate   [V N Events Meaning Verb 动词 I

英语单词 relate
英美音标 英 [rɪ'leɪt] 美 [rɪ'leɪt]
中文释义 v.叙述;使有联系;有关联;涉及;符合;发生共鸣
英语例句 (1) To what events did your remarks relate?
(2) It is difficult to relate cause and effect in this case.
(3) These two events were related to each other.
(4) In what way does it relate to your current career?
(5) Some adults can't relate to children.
中文例句 (1) 你的话指的是什么事?
(2) 这个案件中的动机与结果很难联系起来。
(3) 这两个事件相互有联系。
(4) 这跟您目前的职业有何关联呢?。
(5) 有些成年人不理解儿童的想法。
vocabulary简明 The verb relate means "to make a connection." If you can relate to someone's story, something like that has happened to you.
vocabulary扩展 Relate also means "to give an account of something verbally," like relating details of your trip to Sweden. That meaning of relate comes from the Latin word relatus, meaning "to recount, tell." If you talk about the federal budget crisis, people might not be interested until you relate it, meaning "explain the relationship between," to the possible job cuts at your local schools and police departments.
柯林斯解释
1
[VERB 动词]涉及;关于 If something relates to a particular subject, it concerns that subject.
  [V to n]
  • Other recommendations relate to the details of how such data is stored...

    其他建议涉及此类信息储存方面的一些细节。

  • It does not matter whether the problem you have relates to food, drink, smoking or just living...

    不管你的问题是由食物、饮料、吸烟引起,或仅仅是生活引起,都无关紧要。

  • I had papers relating to the children which my wife and I had to sign.

    我有一些关于孩子的文件需要我和妻子签字。

2
[V-RECIP-ERG ]相关;有关联 The way that two things relate, or the way that one thing relates to another, is the sort of connection that exists between them.
  [pl-n V]
  [V to n]
  [V n to n]
  [V pl-n]
  [V]
  • More studies will be required before we know what the functions of these genes are and whether they relate to each other...

    要弄清这些基因的功能以及它们彼此之间是否关联,我们还需要开展更多的研究。

  • Cornell University offers a course that investigates how language relates to particular cultural codes...

    康奈尔大学开设了一门研究语言与特定文化符号之间如何关联的课程。

  • Many Christians today feel the need to relate their experience to that of the Hindu, the Buddhist and the Muslim.

    如今,许多基督徒感到有必要把自身的体验与印度教徒、佛教徒和伊斯兰教徒的体验相联系。

  • ...a paper called 'Language and Freedom' in which Chomsky tries to relate his linguistic and political views...

    一篇题为“语言和自由”的论文,文中乔姆斯基试图把他的语言学观点和政治观点联系起来

  • At the end, we have a sense of names, dates, and events but no sense of how they relate.

    最后,我们对名字、日期和事件有了些认识,但并不清楚它们之间的关联。

3
[VERB 动词]产生共鸣;认同 If you can relate to someone, you can understand how they feel or behave so that you are able to communicate with them or deal with them easily.
  [V to n]
  [V]
  • He is unable to relate to other people...

    他无法理解他人的想法。

  • I think it is important for children to have brothers and sisters they can relate to...

    我认为对孩子们来讲有可以相互理解沟通的兄弟姐妹很重要。

  • When people are cut off from contact with others, they lose all ability to relate.

    一个人与其他人隔绝后,会失去全部的沟通能力。

4
[VERB 动词]叙述;讲述 If you relate a story, you tell it.
  [V n to n]
  [V n]
  [FORMAL 正式]
  • There were officials to whom he could relate the whole story...

    有一些官员会听他讲述整个故事。

  • She related her tale of living rough.

    她讲述了自己艰苦谋生的故事。

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