likened

英 [ˈlaɪkənd]

美 [ˈlaɪkənd]

v.  把…比作; 把…比拟为
liken的过去分词和过去式

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

• Life can be likened to a journey with an unknown destination.
  生活可以被比作一次不知目的的旅行。
• Of or relating to or characterized by onomatopoeia. Someone likened his voice to the croaking of a bull-frog.
  属于或关于拟声的，或具有拟声特点的。有人把他的声音比作牛蛙的叫声。
• Thought-form can be likened to a magnet that draws a particular experience down the manifestation planes into physicality.
  思想形态可以被比作吸铁石，吸引来某个特定经历走下显化层而进入到物质生活之中。
• Chinese aesthetic has often been likened to "No Style". What do you think about that?
  中国的审美观经常和“不够有型”联系起来，你认为呢？
• JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES once likened investing to judging a beauty contest.
  约翰梅纳德凯恩斯曾经将投资来衡量一个选美比赛。
• Speaking to reporters, Mister Musk likened space travel to where Internet technology was in the nineteen nineties.
  马斯克先生在对记者发言时，将太空旅行与1999年的互联网技术联系起来。
• The singer has been likened to Susan Boyle who was also unknown before appearing on Britain's Got Talent.
  这位歌手已经被誉为苏珊大妈的接班人。苏珊大妈也是在英国的选秀舞台上从一个不知名人物摇身一变，成了名人。
• One researcher likened it to pulling the plug out of a bathtub.
  一位研究人员将其比喻为拔掉浴缸的插头。
• His works have often been likened to those of Nan Goldin, Cindy Sherman and Wolfgang Tillmans.
  他的作品往往被比喻成南戈尔丁，辛迪舍曼和沃尔夫冈体曼希。
• She's been likened to a young Elizabeth taylor.
  她被比作为年轻时的伊丽莎白泰勒。