What is large and what is small are only relative.

所谓大和小只是相对的。

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He points out that it is possible to identify specific factors as the primary causes of a particular historical event only relative to an initial set of background conditions.

他指出，只有相对于初始的背景条件，才有可能将特定因素确定为特定历史事件的主要原因。

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Even its successes are only relative.

即使成功也只是相对的。

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For some others it might mean being basically restricted to the home, if not all the time, then the only exception being in public, in the company of a close-male relative as chaperon.

在一些别的地方可能意味着,基本上深居简出，即使不是一天到晚，也只有外出是例外，而且必须有一个男性近亲作监护人陪同。

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Citizen virtue is relative or we might say regime relative. Only in the best regime he says will the good citizen and the good human being ? be the same. But what is the best regime?

公民美德是相对的，或我们也可说,政体是相对的，他说，仅在最佳政体之中,好公民才会和好人等同,但什么是最佳政体？

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On Sunday, Tsarnaev's uncle Ruslan Tsarni was the only relative at Stefan's funeral home.

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An impressive civil-defense effort has been made, but only relative to the absence of anything before it.

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All the historical records of sea level measure only relative sea level.

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