音标:['laikәn] ; 柯林斯词典等级:1 级;
vt. 比喻, 比拟
v consider or describe as similar, equal, or analogous
词型变化:过去分词 : likened ; 过去式 : likened ; 第三人称单数 : likens ; 现在分词 : likening
考试类型:[GRE]
词性分布:
动词100%

liken的用法和样例:

例句

用作动词(v.)
  1. Someone likens his voice to the croak of a bull-frog.有人把他的声音比作牛蛙的叫声。
  2. Life can be likened to a journey with an unknown destination.生命可以被比作一次不知目的地的旅行。
  3. We often liken the heart to a pump.我们常把心脏比拟为水泵。

词汇搭配

  • liken to 与 ... 相比
  • liken something to把某事物比作…...

经典引文

  • Plato likened memory to a wax tablet.

    出自:Anthony Smith
【近义词】

Quiet Girl I would liken you To a night without stars Were it not for your eyes. I would liken you To a sleep without dreams Were it not for your songs. By langston Hughes

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all-safes
anti-rabic
as plain as the nose in your face
Baathism
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bandpass limiter
bonderising
brutale
bullheaded
capillary fringe
cappo status
carcinologists
cell fill correcting device
cementocytes
chelation
clearing away the damp-heat from the lower-jiao
colipase
contract bargaining
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CROMAC
cryoretinopexy
Cuilo, R.(Kwilu)
Daq-jiu
dehydration motor
e-poll
emotion management
false vampire bats
fishing rock
flow ofwealth
full-period allocated circuit
functional upper jaw
fursona
gender card
get a peep at
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grading instrument
harmonic radar
hoop snakes
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hyllisia taihokensis
infrared cataract
integrate alternator
isotiquimide
Koemong-ni
Laguna de Santo Domingo
lining cracking
low-sudsing
lube contamination
marital bed
metamizole sodium
micro-electrophoretic cell
mifoil
Montebourg
movable-end
ms-window
non-linear breakeven model
nonarbitrary
nonrotation of intestine
outer-product
over-geared
palden
part load condition
pentaoxides
percent of syllabic articulation
pharyngodynia
phenol acids
picture-field
plane bending
poly-A
present value analysis
primary quills
Puerto
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reagreeing
reduction of schedules
routh's stability criterion
sampling statistic
sculptured effect
single shuttle loom
soil age
Somerset Maugham
St Francis County
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subclass Magnoliidae
symbiotyping
take in water
test drill core
theory of higher-order ramification
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time deposit accounts
tmz
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vaxtek
velours renaissance
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