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liken

/ˈlaɪkən/ 动词 C2

中文: 比喻

  1. Followed by to or (archaic) unto: to regard or state that (someone or something) is like another person or thing; to compare. (transitive) · The physics teacher likened the effect of mass on space to an indentation in a sheet of rubber.

复数 liken · He/she/it likens · 过去式 likened · 过去分词 likened · -ing形式 likening

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动词形式

原形
liken
He/she/it
likens
过去式
likened
过去分词
likened
-ing形式
likening

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No one would have thought in looking at this old, weather-beaten, floral-decked tower (which might be likened to an elderly dame dressed up to receive her grandchildren at a birthday feast) that it would have been capable of telling strange things, if,—in addition to the menacing ears which the proverb says all walls are provided with,—it had also a voice.
《The Count of Monte Cristo》,第643页 · C1

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