1The way in which two or more people or things are connected, or the state of being connected.

该项研究将评估失业和政治态度的关系。

1. 1.1 The state of being connected by blood or marriage.
   亲属关系；姻亲关系
   they can trace their relationship to a common ancestor

   他们可以把血缘关系追溯到同一个祖先。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • In healthy relationships, people respect each other for who they are.
   • Family relationships and attitudes towards class and gender are understood in greater detail.
   • The DNA allows the sex to be identified, and familial relationships to be traced.
   • The Korean concept of family, on the other hand, is strictly based on a blood relationship.
   • The legal relationship between two people should be protected by the state.
   • The only thing parents have in common is our curious relationship with our own children.
   • I think that's a common way of looking at relationships because marriage is a form of contractual ownership.
   • It can be especially useful for couples and adults and often leads towards happier relationships.
   • I would love to see more articles on maintaining marriages and relationships.
   • The blood relationship allows these women certain leeway and influence that a wife does not have.
   • Marriage and the nuclear family have become the most common relationships in the middle economic strata.
   • The two of them have a beautiful relationship and they both love each other very dearly.
   • Then they also had the relationship between him and his own father, which is not so great.
   • Your present relationship or marriage is strengthened through love and understanding.
   • The visiting relationship is the most common form of conjugal union for poor Forro or Tonga females.
   • Even heterosexuals are showing greater skepticism about relationships and marriage.
   • In such a case the right is still one that arises out of the marriage relationship.
   • Nothing has affected our relationships with each other - we face the same problems.
   • The prohibition stands whether the relationship is legitimate, natural or by marriage.
   • Such behaviour makes the confidential relationship of marriage impossible.

   Synonyms

   family ties, family connections, blood relationship, blood ties, kinship, affinity, consanguinity, common ancestry, common lineage, connection

   technical propinquity
2. 1.2 The way in which two or more people or groups regard and behave towards each other.
   （人与人、团体与团体间的）关系，往来
   the landlord–tenant relationship

   房东和房客的关系。

   she was proud of her good relationship with the staff

   她为自己和家中佣人的良好关系而自豪。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Contracts are recommended as the basis for the relationship between growers and marketers.
   • Why then is the relationship between doctors and managers often strained and currently perceived to be at a low ebb?
   • The relationship between a bank and its correspondents is often one of agency.
   • It should be to teach children something about the world and help foster their relationships with each other.
   • Classroom teaching involves a personal relationship between teacher and pupil.
   • The most natural relationship between two people is the relationship between man and woman.
   • Do you think that makes a difference to the relationship between the officers and the inmates?
   • Once it was concerned with human relationships - either with each other or their environment.
   • There is a degree of murkiness around the relationship between the murderer and the murdered person.
   • The partial identity of aims required a new definition of the relationship between the armed forces and the state.
   • Does this create an adversarial relationship between the two of you and your respective staffs?
   • Such a duty did not depend on a contractual relationship between the person causing and the person suffering the damage.
   • Finally, the scheme skews the relationship between citizen and state.
   • Partly this derives from the inequality of the relationship between doctors and patients.
   • It represents a process that is actively destructive of people's views of themselves, and their relationships with each other.
   • In other words privity of estate arises when there is a relationship of landlord and tenant between the parties.
   • The relationship between South African rugby and its rugby journalists is a bittersweet one.
   • Every poem in it was in some way or form connected to the relationship between the two of them.
   • The usual distinction does not apply when the relationship between the parties obliges them to look after the patient.
   • It recognises the role of family and other relationships in influencing trends towards recovery or relapse.
3. 1.3 An emotional and sexual association between two people.
   浪漫关系，两性关系
   she has a daughter from a previous relationship

   她有一个此前和别人生的女儿。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • We have children from previous relationships / marriages and a one year old together.
   • Reciprocal transactions are one of the ways that people begin to develop relationships with each other.
   • It seems a lot of people in the company have relationships with each other.
   • He emphasizes how these arrangements often led to romantic relationships and marriages.
   • You're lucky you have each other and a relationship in which you can speak your mind.
   • We are here to affirm the rights of all New Zealanders to legal protection and social respect for their relationships.
   • Vicki and Harriet begin a flirtatious relationship, fraught with sexual tension.
   • From this point of view, the tale deals with a sexual relationship as much as the previous one does.
   • In our efforts to find and maintain loving relationships, many of us behave as if we are bargain hunting.
   • Why do people love each other so much, have such an intimate relationship, and then fight?
   • I mean, you talk to any sex therapist, and they'll tell you that the level of sexual boredom in relationships is very high.
   • In fact her uninhibited attitude towards sex and relationships often catches the people around her unawares.
   • Her goal is to teach skills that change the way we think and behave in relationships.
   • The emotional nature of most sexual relationships seems to have changed the focus from the self to the dyad.
   • He thinks that people in relationships don't need friends, because they have each other.
   • What does it mean to be a ‘spook’, how does being a spy affect personal relationships and friendships?
   • I think it's the secrets that do destroy marriages and do destroy relationships.
   • This is their relationship with each other and you shouldn't be playing a part in it.
   • I believe all couples have to learn to leave each other alone, to give each other space in relationships.
   • Is it actually possible for humans to divorce sex from their relationships with each other without drugs and brain surgery?

   Synonyms

   romance, love affair, affair, affair of the heart, love, amorous entanglement, flirtation, liaison

   French affaire de/du cœur, amour