similar
adjective OPAL WOPAL S
/ˈsɪmələ(r)/
/ˈsɪmələr/
- like somebody/something but not exactly the same
相像的；相仿的；类似的 - We have very similar interests.
我们兴趣相仿。 - The experiment was repeated, with similar results.
实验重复进行，结果相似。 - I came across a similar situation last year.
去年我遇到过类似的情况。 - The brothers look very similar.
弟兄几个长得很像。 - The three portraits are remarkably similar.
这 3 幅肖像惊人地相似。 - similar to somebody/something My teaching style is similar to that of most other teachers.
我的教学风格和多数教师相似。 - The case is strikingly similar to another case from the 1990s.
该案件与20世纪90年代的另一个案件惊人地相似。 - similar in something The two houses are similar in size.
两座房子大小差不多。 - All the narratives follow a similar pattern.
所有的叙述都遵循相似的模式。 - The disease attacks the immune system in a similar way to AIDS.
这种疾病攻击免疫系统的方式类似于艾滋病。 - She easily won today, and hopes to carry on in a similar vein tomorrow.
她今天轻松获胜，希望明天也能以同样的方式继续下去。 - Stir the paint with a piece of wood or something similar.
用木棒或类似的东西把油漆搅拌一下。
- The scene in the picture was eerily similar to what I had seen in my dream.
怪异的是，照片里的情景和我的梦境很相似。 - Their experiences are superficially similar.
他们的经历表面上看很相似。 - countries with broadly similar characteristics
具有大致相似特点的国家 - All our patients have broadly similar problems.
我们所有的病人问题大致相似。
Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- feel
- look
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- extremely
- fairly
- very
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- in
- to
词源late 16th cent. (also as a term in anatomy meaning ‘homogeneous’): from French similaire or medieval Latin similaris, from Latin similis ‘like’. - We have very similar interests.