non-relative
non-relative — 名詞
1. a person who does not belong to your family by blood or marriage, often mentione
非親屬
與你沒有血緣或婚姻關係的人
a person who does not belong to your family by blood or marriage, often mentioned in legal, medical, or housing contexts where the distinction matters.
Otis named his neighbour Diego as a non-relative he wanted to visit him in the hospital.
Otis 指定鄰居 Diego 為非親屬探病者，希望住院時對方能來看他。
noun in object position; named NP of [headword]
The landlord asked whether the woman moving in was a relative or a non-relative.
房東詢問即將搬進來的女子是親屬還是非親屬。
contrastive pairing with 'relative'
Tanvi left a small share of her savings to a non-relative who had cared for her late mother.
Tanvi 將一小筆積蓄留給一位曾照顧她已故母親的非親屬。
Hospital policy lets one non-relative stay overnight if the patient gives written consent.
醫院規定，若病患書面同意，可由一位非親屬陪宿。
Élise lives with two non-relatives in a shared flat near the university.
Élise 與兩位非親屬共住在大學附近的合租公寓裡。
- outsider
broader; emphasises being outside any group, not specifically a family
- unrelated person
everyday paraphrase; less bureaucratic than 'non-relative'
- third party
legal register; someone outside a specified relationship, not always about family
文法句型
a non-relative of [person]
用法筆記
Almost always appears in institutional or legal contexts (hospitals, immigration, inheritance, housing) where rules treat family members differently from outsiders. In ordinary speech people prefer 'friend', 'stranger', or 'someone outside the family'.
常見錯誤
non-relative — 形容詞
1. describing a quality, value, or measurement that stands on its own and is not wo
非相對的
不靠比較得出的；自身就成立
describing a quality, value, or measurement that stands on its own and is not worked out by comparing it with something else.
In her lecture, Professor Naoko said human dignity has a non-relative value across every culture.
Naoko 教授在課堂上指出，人性尊嚴具有跨越各文化的非相對的價值。
academic lecture context; attributive use before 'value'
The engineer tested the bridge using non-relative units that hold true in any reference frame.
那位工程師以非相對的單位測試橋樑，這些單位在任何參考系中皆成立。
engineering / measurement context
The judges marked each painting on a non-relative scale, ignoring how the other entries had scored.
評審以非相對的標準為每幅畫評分，不考慮其他作品的得分情況。
Ziad argued in class that some moral truths are non-relative and apply in every country.
Ziad 在課堂上主張，某些道德真理是非相對的，在每個國家都適用。
- absolute
everyday word; the same idea but used in normal writing, not just academic
- fixed
informal; suggests unchanging, not specifically free of comparison
- context-independent
academic; emphasises that the value holds regardless of surrounding conditions
- relative
direct opposite — measured or judged in comparison with something else
- comparative
specifically about side-by-side comparison
文法句型
non-relative + noun
用法筆記
Attributive only — sits before a noun ('a non-relative scale') and rarely after 'be'. Common in philosophy, ethics, and the sciences as the opposite of 'relative'; in everyday writing, 'absolute' is the much more frequent word for the same idea.