1854 March.--Five days at the house of a relative. July.--Three days at the house of a relative. October.--Six days at the house of a relative.英文原著 · 《The Life and Letters-1》
Young Sir John Oxon's visit to his relative at Eldershawe being at an end, he returned to town, and remaining there through a few weeks of fashionable gaiety, won new reputations as a triumpher over the female heart. He made some renowned conquests and set the mode in some new essences and sword-knots. But even these triumphs appeared to pall upon him shortly, since he deserted the town and returned again to the country, where, on this occasion, he did not stay with his relative, but with Sir Jeoffry himself, who had taken a boisterous fancy to him.英文原著 · 《A Lady of Quality》
The suppression of the relative, both nominative and accusative or dative, is not uncommon; and, until the reader becomes familiar with it, it often gives, especially if the suppression is that of a subject relative, a momentary, but only a momentary, check to the understanding of a passage.英文原著 · 《Introduction to Robert Browning》
In writing to me, the lawyer had only alluded to "a surviving relative of Sir Gervase, nearly akin to him by blood." The document was more explicit. It described the relative as being a nephew of Sir Gervase, the son of his sister. The name followed.英文原著 · 《LITTLE NOVELS》
In the tabular statement the "missing" embraces the prisoners; and, giving two thousand as a fair proportion of prisoners captured by us for the month of June (twelve thousand nine hundred and eighty- three in all the campaign), makes an aggregate loss in the rebel army of fifty-nine hundred and forty-eight, to ours of seventy-five hundred and thirty--a less proportion than in the relative strength of our two armies, viz., as six to ten, thus maintaining our relative superiority, which the desperate game of war justified.英文原著 · 《Memoirs of General William T. Sherman-2》
(1) The motion of bodies of relative centrality, in relation to bodies of abstract, general centrality,
is absolutely free motion, and the conclusion of this system is that the general central body is
brought together through relative centrality with dependent corporeality.英文原著 · 《Philosophy of Nature》
He can stay here until we find another relative, any relative.美剧 · 《Shameless》
She a blood relative? -No, but-- So you're an unlicensed non-relative.美剧 · 《Shameless》
In terms of living relatives, I didn't find anything, but when I looked into the estates of relatives who passed away, E Holding was originally in the name of the aunt.美剧 · 《Suits》
This is the time of year in Poland when the snow would melt and all our dead relatives美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》