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

• 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。
• 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。
• Harold Meyerson, a friendly journalist, likens her rhetoric to "a compendium of bumper-stickers".
  友好的记者哈罗德·梅尔森把她的演讲比作“贴纸目录”。
• He always likens his work to battle.
  他总是把工作比作战斗。
• 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 song, the hunter likens himself to the beautiful blackbird loved by the deer.
  在歌中，猎人将自己比作鹿所钟爱的美丽山鸟。
• North Korea often likens its hate figures to common beasts like dogs, rats, cockroaches and crows, but in this case it's something more exotic.
  朝鲜总是喜欢把讨厌的人贬低成常见的动物，例如狗、老鼠、蟑螂、乌鸦等等，不过这次倒是别具一格。
• 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。
• 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 likens the energy-distribution system to a "leaky bucket" and says plugging the obvious holes could have a big impact relatively quickly.
  他把能源分布系统比作是一个“漏漏桶”并且说堵住那些显而易见的漏洞可能会相对较快地产生一个大的影响。