liken

/'laikәn/ uk　 词频 #9141

英语专业八级

liken 是什么意思

中文释义

vt. 比喻, 比拟

英文释义

v consider or describe as similar, equal, or analogous

liken 的真实例句

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Witnesses and survivors of such accidents have likened the sound of impact to a bomb blast.

—— New Orleans’s Car-Crash Conspiracy

This can be likened to shining a flashlight at a mirror that is rushing toward you at enormous speed.

—— Laser-plasma 'mirror' unlocks a new path to extreme light intensities

Wolfgang Ketterle, who led the MIT team, likened it to detecting a slight breeze by looking at tree leaves.

—— How a century-long argument over light’s true nature came to an end

Joe Shockman, co-founder and chief executive of Grounded AI, calls such references ‘Frankenstein’ citations, likening their assembly to that of the fictional monster.

—— Hallucinated Citations Are Polluting the Scientific Literature. What Can Be Done?

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