英语释义

1. to describe (someone or something) as similar to (someone or something else)
Some critics have likened his writing to Faulkner's. She likened her trip to a pilgrimage.

片语

set beside与…相比

liken business to warfare把商场比作战场

liken to compare比较

be liken to被看作

to liken把…比作

liken someone to圣人

liken sth to sth把…比作

英汉例句

• this creates an incentive for firms to build up their patent portfolios to strengthen their position in negotiations, leading to what some liken to an arms race.

  这种条件促使公司们建立它们各属的专利库，以便在以后的谈判转让上更加挺直腰板，此情此景不禁让人联想起军备竞赛。

• i am liken to a grain of wheat with one difference. the wheat cannot choose whether it be fed to swine, ground for bread, or planted to multiply.

  我的命运如同一粒麦子除了点：小麦不能选择是否被喂猪，或者成为面包，或者被栽种繁衍。

• and they called on google to be clearer about the rules governing adwords, which experts liken to a 「black box」.

  他们认为谷歌非常清楚广告词项目的控制方式，专家喜欢称之为「暗箱操作」。

• as a result of the constantly changing of appearances, things are liken to a mirage and a dream. to identify this passing life for the changeless life of truth is a delusion.

  由于表相持续变化，任何事物就宛如海市蜃楼和一场幻梦，把这样短暂的人生误认为永恒不变的真实人生是一种迷惑妄想。

• this technique may be liken to placing map overlays on top of each other on a light table (figure 14.8).

  这技术就像是将地图互相叠合在明亮的桌面上（如图14.8）。

• my holiday was fade liken to travel, i had always toted some replacement clothing and commodity.

  我的假期相对旅行来说要简单一些，我总是带些置换的衣服和日常用品。

• it「s like prince charles of wales will become liken to king ahab, and pope benedict will become as jezebel over the false apostate one world religion.

  那就像威尔斯查理斯王子将会成为了亚哈王一样，而教宗本笃将会藉着假冒的、叛教的普世单一宗教变成像耶洗别一样。

• love is liken to multiplication, the result be zero only if any multiplier be zero.

  爱情就像乘法，其中一项为零，其结果永远为零……

• television audiences around the world have complained about the din from the horn, which critics liken to a herd of trampling elephants or swarms of bees.

  来自世界各地的电视观众都在抱怨非洲喇叭的吵闹，他们指责其声音就像一群狂躁的大象或是成群的蜜蜂。

• neither did i liken to her any priceless gem, because all gold is but a little sand in her sight, and silver will be accounted as clay before her.

  无价的宝石也不能与她相比，因为，一切黄金在她面前，不过只是一粒细沙；白银在她跟前，无异一撮泥土。

• they will often kill any male or young chimpanzees they find, sometimes eating or physically brutalizing their victims in a manner that some researchers liken to torture.

  它们通常会杀死其所发现的所有公猩猩和小猩猩，有时候还会吃掉或者残酷对待这些受害者，一些研究者把这种残酷行为比作折磨。

• this back-and-forth negotiation process, which many liken to a dance, can leave you shuffling endlessly around the issues, while resentment builds on both sides.

  这种一进一退的谈判过程就像是跳舞，让你在这些议题上无止境地绕圈子，同时，双方开始产生怨恨。

• life can be liken to a journey with an unknown destination.

  人生一世，就好比是一次搭车旅行。

• i am liken to a grain of wheat with one difference. the wheat cannot choose whether it be fed to swine, ground for bread, or planted to multiply.

  我和一颗麦粒唯一不同在于：麦粒无法选择是变得腐烂还是做成面包，或是种植生长。

• i am liken to a grain of wheat with one difference.

  我被比作一颗与别的不同的麦粒。

• can liken to parents in everybody」s life, the teacher who only stood on a meter of lecture platforms accomplished.

  并不是每个人的人生都可以比作父母，只有站在三尺讲台上的老师做到了。

• i am liken to a grain of wheat which faces one of three futures.

  我的命运如同一颗麦粒，有着三种不同未来。