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- having a mutual relationship; corresponding相关的; 对应的:
rights, whether moral or legal, can involve correlative duties.
不管是道德权利还是法律权利, 都会牵涉到相应的责任。
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- Grammar (of words such as neither and nor) corresponding to each other and regularly used together【语法】关联的。
- a word or concept that has a mutual relationship with another word or concept关联词; 关联概念:
the child's right to education is a correlative of the parent's duty to send the child to school.
孩子受教育的权利是和父母让孩子上学的义务相关联的。
派生词
correlatively
adverbcorrelativity
noun词源
mid 16th cent.: from medieval Latin correlativus, from cor- 'together' + late Latin relativus (see RELATIVE).