英语词汇“to be all relative”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

to be all relative: to be evaluated differently depending on a person's perspective; to be incapable of definitive or absolute evaluation. Frequently in it's all relative.

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1804 C. Robinson Rep. High Court Admiralty 4 131 It may be difficult to lay down the precise bounds, where ordinary commerce ends, and extraordinary speculation begins. It is all relative.

1826 Monthly Rev. May 26 To a stranger the features appear ugly. Beauty of this description is all relative.

1876 Harper's Mag. Mar. 564/2 There is no absolute value to a work of art; it's all relative.

1904 Q. Jrnl. Econ. 18 372 Luxuries afford no real absolute utility: the satisfaction they yield is all relative.

1907 Everybody's Mag. Oct. 465/2 When people truly love each other nothing else matters... It's all relative and it doesn't make any difference what you have or haven't—what you can have or can't have.

1969 J. Weidman & J. Yaffe Ivory Tower 74 Only a man of limited experience would use the phrase ‘very long’. It's all relative. Sooner or later men and women grow tired of one another.

2004 Snoop Aug.–Sept. 30/1 Torture they say is all relative. Some people would rather be put to rack than endure an hour of a girlfriend telling them what she did all day.

单词	to be all relative
释义	> as lemmas to be all relative to be all relative: to be evaluated differently depending on a person's perspective; to be incapable of definitive or absolute evaluation. Frequently in it's all relative. ΚΠ 1804 C. Robinson Rep. High Court Admiralty 4 131 It may be difficult to lay down the precise bounds, where ordinary commerce ends, and extraordinary speculation begins. It is all relative. 1826 Monthly Rev. May 26 To a stranger the features appear ugly. Beauty of this description is all relative. 1876 Harper's Mag. Mar. 564/2 There is no absolute value to a work of art; it's all relative. 1904 Q. Jrnl. Econ. 18 372 Luxuries afford no real absolute utility: the satisfaction they yield is all relative. 1907 Everybody's Mag. Oct. 465/2 When people truly love each other nothing else matters... It's all relative and it doesn't make any difference what you have or haven't—what you can have or can't have. 1969 J. Weidman & J. Yaffe Ivory Tower 74 Only a man of limited experience would use the phrase ‘very long’. It's all relative. Sooner or later men and women grow tired of one another. 2004 Snoop Aug.–Sept. 30/1 Torture they say is all relative. Some people would rather be put to rack than endure an hour of a girlfriend telling them what she did all day. extracted from relativen.adj.adv. < as lemmas
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