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likening

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

相似性,类似性,类似化,类似的

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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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Examples

  • NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine previously likened the policy to the rules governing the seas.

  • Katherine O’Brien, the World Health Organization’s head of immunization, likens the task of distributing the vaccines after the months-long development sprint to summiting Mount Everest having reached base camp.

  • He likens the franchise model to McDonald’s, where the national corporation gives operators a proven standard operating procedure and ongoing support.

  • Deborah Berger, who lives on the fourth floor, likened the new regime to living in a giant day care center.

  • He likens it to carefully designing a car before starting to build it.

  • Likening their creation to a cultural telescope, they proceed to share some of their ostensibly dazzling findings.

  • Kiselyov is fond of Third Reich references, likening Russian anti-corruption campaigner and Putin critic Alexey Navalny to Hitler.

  • He coached me on how to perform oral sex, likening it to “sucking a lollipop.”

  • He displayed “an attitude of complacency,” with one likening him to “a dodgy geezer.”

  • Khrushchev was offended by that likening of him to a dog barking.

  • I can't help likening thee to that poor gipsy wench, Sybil; but may I be scragged if I'd use thee as her lover has used her.

  • But her nature, which the lover had greatly belied in likening it to her name, was not cold enough for this.

  • Several Greek poets give us the same association, likening the stars to "rock-pigeons, flying from the Hunter Orion."

  • He made the retrograde step of likening the head of insects to a single segment.

  • If she says she is sorry for likening me to Winfield, I will tell her who sent the roses.