核心畫面
You can think of relatively as a quiet reminder: this judgment is not absolute — it only holds when you set the thing next to other similar things. 'Relatively small' doesn't mean small on its own; it means small compared with the others in the picture. The word always points sideways, to the comparison standing behind it.
可以想成它是一個輕聲的提醒：這個判斷不是絕對的——只有把這東西擺到其他類似的東西旁邊比一比，它才成立。「relati…更多收起
可以想成它是一個輕聲的提醒：這個判斷不是絕對的——只有把這東西擺到其他類似的東西旁邊比一比，它才成立。「relatively small（比較小）」不是說它本身小，而是跟畫面裡其他東西相比之下小。這個字總是在往旁邊指，指向背後那個拿來比較的對象。原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
relativelyadv/ˈɹɛl.ə.tɪv.li/
- 1
In a relative manner; with reference to environment or competition; contextually or comparatively.
- In the present position of Europe, it is obvious, that France domineers. She has gained positively, by adding territory to her dominions [...]; she has gained relatively, by removing Austria to a distance, and by weakening that ancient rival to such a degree, as to secure her inaction for an age.
- [T]he Sundanese [...] have better preserved their primitive usages than the other inhabitants of the island. They are as a rule taller, more robust, and healthier; but they are regarded as relatively barbarous, and in the company of Malays or Javanese, they are themselves ashamed of their dialect, which is looked on as a sort of rude patois.
- 2
Somewhat; fairly.
- Additionally, the F never lets you forget it's one big and very heavy motorcycle. The wide bars give you the leverage to bend it into a corner relatively quickly, but you feel its mass resisting. […] On the freeway, the seat–relatively thin to keep ride height down–offers a pleasant site for your rear through a tank of gas.
- There are at least 1,000 DOE staff working in relatively new offices in the department created after Biden’s infrastructure and climate laws passed a few years ago, including the Grid Deployment Office – which works on modernizing and securing the nation’s electrical grid.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。