Liken

(a.) To allege, or think, to be like; to represent as like; to compare; as, to liken life to a pilgrimage.

(a.) To make or cause to be like.

编辑:雷金纳德

• The discoveries of Ampère as to the laws of electricity have been likened to the discovery of Newton of the law of gravitation. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• At first I likened it to a colony, which borne over the far seas, struck root for the first time in a new country. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Perhaps it was so likened by the lonely Bargeman, standing on the brink of the lock. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Reflect: is not the dreamer, sleeping or waking, one who likens dissimilar things, who puts the copy in the place of the real object? 柏拉图. 理想国.

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