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liken

/lahy-kuhn/US // ˈlaɪ kən //UK // (ˈlaɪkən) //

类似,类似的,比喻,相似

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to represent as similar or like; compare: to liken someone to a weasel.

Synonyms & Antonyms

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Forms: likened, likening

Examples

  • Because epidemiological models make statements about the future, it’s tempting to liken them to weather forecasts — but it’s also deeply wrong.

  • A third media executive likened the platforms’ aggregated inventory to sausage.

  • Washington Post reporter Ann Gerhart likened it to “the Bataan Death March set to music.”

  • Earlier in this column, I likened getting the vaccine to a winning lottery ticket.

  • It is no coincidence that the psychologist Jean Piaget, whose trailblazing research helped us understand how children develop, likened dreaming to play.

  • In fact, the Michigan congressman went so far as to liken them to Judas Iscariot.

  • Some researchers liken it to an addiction, others to sexual orientation; still others put their faith in brain scans.

  • “I liken it to a building contractor that builds homes,” he says.

  • They liken the experience to eating pot brownies, which, unlike smoking, results in more lasting, full-bodied effects.

  • It would be in vain to seek for any object more intrinsically inconsiderable with which to liken a condition of indifference.

  • To liken a thing to something already known is a vivid way of explaining.

  • It is over forty feet high, and is fronted in such a peculiar fashion, I could only liken it to some heathen temple.

  • Her words I can liken to nothing but to so many little silver bells, ringing out into the clear air in joy and sweetness.

  • Four days later he sat on the side of his cot and said to the patients mildly: 'I'd 'a' liken to 'a' spoken to 'im so I should.'