likeness

英 [ˈlaɪknəs]

美 [ˈlaɪknəs]

n.  相像; 相似; (尤指画得像的)肖像，画像

复数：likenesses　

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Collins.1 / BNC.11671 / COCA.10244

牛津词典

noun

• 相像；相似
  the fact of being similar to another person or thing, especially in appearance; an example of this
  1. Joanna bears a strong likeness to her father.
     乔安娜长得酷似她父亲。
  2. Do you notice any family likeness between them?
     你看没看出他俩是一家人，长得像？
• （尤指画得像的）肖像，画像
  a painting, drawing, etc. of a person, especially one that looks very like them
  1. The drawing is said to be a good likeness of the girl's attacker.
     据说那幅画像很像袭击那个女孩的歹徒。

柯林斯词典

• N-SING 相像；相似
  If two things or people have alikeness toeach other, they are similar to each other.
  1. These myths have a startling likeness to one another...
     这些神话彼此间有惊人的相似性。
  2. There might be a likeness between their features, but their eyes were totally dissimilar.
     他们的相貌也许有些相似，但眼睛却完全不同。
• N-COUNT 肖像；画像；照片；塑像
  Alikeness ofsomeone is a picture or sculpture of them.
  1. The museum displays wax likenesses of every US president.
     这家博物馆陈列着历任美国总统的蜡像。
• N-COUNT （照片与本人的）相似
  If you say that a picture of someone is a goodlikeness, you mean that it looks just like them.
  1. She says the artist's impression is an excellent likeness of her abductor.
     她说这张模拟画像像极了绑架她的人。

英英释义

noun

• picture consisting of a graphic image of a person or thing
  Synonym:semblance
• similarity in appearance or character or nature between persons or things
  1. man created God in his own likeness
  Synonym:alikenesssimilitude

双语例句

• There might be a likeness between their features, but their eyes were totally dissimilar.
  他们的相貌也许有些相似，但眼睛却完全不同。
• For the first time in her life, she saw a likeness between herself and Aunt Patience.
  她一生中第一次看到了自己与培信斯姨妈之间的相象之处。
• Your version bears very little likeness to the original.
  你的译文和原著相差太大。
• You would be close behind and I the figure of the likeness.
  你会紧跟着与我相似的背影。
• They say I'm of her very likeness.
  他们说我非常像她。
• I notice a family likeness in the modern Spanish novel that I read.
  我在所读的西班牙现代小说中注意到一个共同点。
• I can't see much likeness between him and his father.
  我看不出他和他父亲有多少相像处。
• The statue is presumably not intended as a likeness of the duke.
  这座雕塑可能并不打算用作公爵的塑像。
• I see no likeness whatever between him and his brother.
  我看不出他和他兄弟有任何相似之处。
• Painters aim at a likeness not only in appearance, but also in spirit.
  绘画不仅要求形似，而且要求神似。