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

• 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。
• David Miles, chief UK economist of Morgan Stanley, for example, likens the complex financial products that are central to the current malaise to bets on a horse race.
  例如，摩根士丹利（MorganStanley）英国首席经济学家大卫•迈尔斯（DavidMiles）将处于目前震荡中心的复杂金融产品，比作赛马赌注。
• 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。
• 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”。
• 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。
• In this novel, Margaret Mitchell likens the weak to wheat, and the strong to buckwheat.
  在《飘》这部小说中，玛格丽特米切尔把弱者比喻为小麦，把强者比喻为荞麦。
• He likens forgiveness to snow or the washing of wool.
  祂形容祂的赦罪如雪、如洗净的羊毛。
• 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。
• 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。
• Despite his doubts about social media stock picking, Prof Bollen believes broader Internet mood analysis could lead to something big, and likens the pursuit to the Californian gold rush.
  尽管他质疑通过社交媒体选择股票的方法，但博伦教授认为，整体的互联网情绪分析能产生重大收获，就像当年加州淘金热一样。