likens
英 [ˈlaɪkənz]
美 [ˈlaɪkənz]
v. 把…比作; 把…比拟为
liken的第三人称单数
柯林斯词典
- VERB 把…比作;把…比拟为
If youlikenone thing or persontoanother thing or person, you say that they are similar.- She likens marriage to slavery...
她把婚姻比作奴役。 - The pain is often likened to being drilled through the side of the head.
这种疼痛常被比作钻头钻入头部的感觉。
- She likens marriage to slavery...
双语例句
- Balazs likens the microcapsules'action to that of blood cells in the human body.
Balazs把微聚体的作用比喻成体内的血细胞。 - He likens the process to a trip to the mountains.
他把这一过程比作一次登山旅行。 - YUKIO HATOYAMA, Japan's prime minister, likens his role to that of a conductor trying to achieve "harmony" one of his favourite words from a pickup orchestra ( for which read, novice cabinet).
日本首相鸠山由纪夫(YUKIOHATOYAMA)把自己比作一位试图在临时拼凑的管弦乐队(暗指新组建的内阁)中达到“和谐”的指挥家。 - Wesley likens Stefan's taste of blood to a recovering drug addict using again, and says that, although viewers may not like the blood-thirsty version of Stefan, he's OK with that.
韦斯利把斯特凡的嗜血比作毒瘾发作,他还表示尽管观众们可能不喜欢嗜血版斯特凡,他自己则对此无所谓。 - Harold Meyerson, a friendly journalist, likens her rhetoric to "a compendium of bumper-stickers".
友好的记者哈罗德·梅尔森把她的演讲比作“贴纸目录”。 - Raeder likens the difference to igniting a gas stove one of two ways: In the first way, the gas is turned on and the stove is lit and you get a flame.
Raeder将这种情况比喻为我们点燃瓦斯炉的两种不同方式:第一种方式,打开瓦斯,点燃火炉,得到火焰。 - Mr Coates likens this condition to the state of "learned helplessness" identified in the1960s by Martin Seligman, a psychologist who delivered random electric shocks to dogs constrained in harnesses.
Coates先生认为这种现象可以和心理学家MartinSeligman在1960s通过实验随机电击拴起来的狗发现的“获得性无助”想比较。 - When Amazon likens the change to the arrival of the paperback, it makes a grave underestimation; the invention of printing is a better analogy.
亚马逊把这种改变比作平装本的出现,实在是严重低估了数字化的影响;与印刷术的发明相提并论还更贴切些。 - He likens the energy-distribution system to a "leaky bucket" and says plugging the obvious holes could have a big impact relatively quickly.
他把能源分布系统比作是一个“漏漏桶”并且说堵住那些显而易见的漏洞可能会相对较快地产生一个大的影响。 - Peter Sims likens this to placing "little bets", in a new book of that title.
彼得西姆斯在他的一本同名新书《小赌注》里,把这比作“小赌注”。