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

• 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。
• 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。
• He likens the process to a trip to the mountains.
  他把这一过程比作一次登山旅行。
• 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 always likens his work to battle.
  他总是把工作比作战斗。
• One Spaniard likens the financial system to a "spider's web" over which central banks have less control than they did in the past;
  一个西班牙银行家把金融系统比喻成蜘蛛网，而中央银行对这张网的控制已不如从前。
• She likens marriage to slavery
  她把婚姻比作奴役。
• 'We know intellectually that we have to wait, but we don't want to,' adds Ms. Horton, who likens the feeling to that of a 'biological clock' for grandparents.
  她说：在理智上我们知道必须得等，但我们不想等。她把这种感觉比喻成祖父母的生物钟。
• 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。
• 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。