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

• 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。
• 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。
• Though derided by some for his political suicide, one grudging admirer from a Japanese business group likens Mr Noda to a warrior committing hara-kiri – ritual suicide – rather than be taken by his enemies.
  尽管有人嘲笑他这是政治自杀，日本一个商业组织中的一名不情愿的赞慕者还是将野田的行为比作武士的剖腹自杀&一种仪式自杀，而不是死于敌人之手。
• 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。
• 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。
• Balazs likens the microcapsules'action to that of blood cells in the human body.
  Balazs把微聚体的作用比喻成体内的血细胞。
• 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。
• He likens the process to a trip to the mountains.
  他把这一过程比作一次登山旅行。
• 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。
• Lead investigator Frank Bradke likens scar tissue formation to "stop signs" that impede the regrowth of nerve fibers.
  这项研究的负责人弗兰克·布拉德克将伤疤组织比作路口的停车标志，它阻止了神经纤维的再生。