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.
  1. She likens marriage to slavery...
     她把婚姻比作奴役。
  2. 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。

双语例句

• One former colleague likens him to magician Harry Houdini for his knack of escaping market falls.
  他以前的一位同事把他比作魔术师哈里霍迪尼（harryhoudini），具有从市场下跌中逃生的能力。
• Josh Klein, its director of biochemistry RD, likens the company's egg-replacing strategy to the process a drug company might use to fight disease.
  该公司生化研发主任约什？克莱恩（JoshKlein）将其取代鸡蛋的策略比作药品公司可能用于对抗疾病的过程。
• JAPAN'S new prime minister admits he is no Mr Charisma-Yoshihiko Noda likens himself to a marine bottom-feeder rather than a glittering goldfish.
  新一届日本首相野田佳彦坦言并非魅力先生&他将比作水底的泥鳅而闪闪发光的金鱼。
• 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。
• She likens marriage to slavery
  她把婚姻比作奴役。
• Jhansi famously likens our normal anthropocentric perspective at the bottom of a well who believes that he commands a view of the entire world.
  有名的是，简思把正常的以人类为中心的视角，比作一口井的底部，人们相信，他指示出了整个世界的视野。
• The authors then offer an example of security violation, using a traditional analogy that likens software security to home security.
  作者接下来提出了关于违反安全的一个例子，使用传统的推理把软件安全比作成家庭安全。
• 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。
• 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”。