analogy
noun /əˈnælədʒi/
/əˈnælədʒi/
(plural analogies)
- [countable] a comparison of one thing with another thing that has similar features; a feature that is similar
类比；比拟；相似之处 - analogy (between A and B) The teacher drew an analogy between the human heart and a pump.
老师打了个比喻，把人的心脏比作水泵。 - analogy (with something) There are no analogies with any previous legal cases.
以往的法律案件没有哪一宗可与此案类比。
Topics Languagec1- She suggested an analogy between the human heart and a pump.
她打了个比喻，把人的心脏比作一个泵。 - The Wild West analogy does not fit here.
西大荒的类比用在这儿不合适。 - There is an analogy here with the way an engine works.
这个与发动机的工作原理类似。 - The computer is a useful analogy for the brain.
计算机是人脑很恰当的类比物。
Collocations Dictionaryadjective- appropriate
- apt
- good
- …
- draw
- make
- suggest
- …
- fit
- hold
- by analogy
- by analogy to
- by analogy with
- …
- argument by analogy
- argument from analogy
- analogy (between A and B) The teacher drew an analogy between the human heart and a pump.
- [uncountable] the process of comparing one thing with another thing that has similar features in order to explain it
类推；比拟 - learning by analogy
用类推法学习 - We can understand this theory by analogy with human beings.
我们用人来作类比就能理解这个理论了。
Collocations Dictionaryadjective- appropriate
- apt
- good
- …
- draw
- make
- suggest
- …
- fit
- hold
- by analogy
- by analogy to
- by analogy with
- …
- argument by analogy
- argument from analogy
- learning by analogy
词源late Middle English (in the sense ‘appropriateness, correspondence’): from French analogie, Latin analogia ‘proportion’, from Greek, from analogos ‘proportionate’.