analogy

[ə'nælədʒi]

n.类比, 相似, 类似

n.

1. 相似, 类似[C][(+between/to/with)]

There's no analogy between his position and yours.

他的见解与你的并无相似之处。

2. 比拟; 类推, 类比[U][S1]

reason by analogy

用类推的方法论证

3. 【生】同功

4. 【逻】类比

5. 【语】类推(作用)

词形变化

名词复数: analogies |

词义辨析

同义:

n.比较, 参照, 相似

comparison  compare  parallelism  analogousness  likeness  resemblance  semblance  kinship  comparing  similarity

n.同意, 一致

agreement  accordance  correspondence  correspondency  concurrence  conformity  conformance  parity  alikeness  uniformity  oneness  sameness  relationship  correlation  

同义参见:

equality  parallel  

英英释义

名词 analogy:

an inference that if things agree in some respects they probably agree in others

drawing a comparison in order to show a similarity in some respect

the religious belief that between creature and creator no similarity can be found so great but that the dissimilarity is always greater; language can point in the right direction but any analogy between God and humans will always be inadequate

同义词：doctrine of analogy

短语词组

by analogy with

1. 运用类比

The author explained the movement of light by analogy with that of water.

作者通过对水的运动的类比来解释光的运动。

draw an analogy

1. 作类比

The teacher drew an analogy between the human heart and a pump.

老师把人类的心脏和泵作类比。

补充

analogyanalogy英:[əˈnælədʒi] 美:[əˈnælədʒi]n.1.类似, 相似Shakespeare makes an analogy between the citizens of country and the parts of a person's body.莎士比亚把一个国家中的国民类比为人身体的各个部分。There is an analogy between the way water moves in waves and the way light travels.水的波动与光的运行有类似之处。2.类推, 类推法It is not always reliable to argue by analogy.靠类推法论证并不总是可靠的。

例句

1. the analogy of looking for a needle in a haystack比作大海捞针 2. drawing an analogy between music and fragrance将音乐与香气进行类比 3. working by analogy to compare the two processes用类比的方法比较两个过程 4. an analogy between the workings of nature and those of human societies.自然活动和人类社会活动的相比。 5. [mass noun]he interprets logical functions by analogy with machines.他通过与机器类比阐释逻辑功能。 6. works of art were seen as an analogy for works of nature.艺术作品被看成是可与自然创造类比之物。 7. You could make an analogy between the human body and a car engine.你可以将人的身体和汽车发动机作模拟。 8. He drew/made an analogy between flying a kite and fishing. [=he compared flying a kite to fishing; he said that flying a kite was like fishing]他将放风筝和钓鱼进行了类比。 9. coining new words by analogy to/with existing ones [=coining new words so that they are formed in a way similar to old ones]比照现有词汇创造新词 10. reasoning by analogy以类推的方式进行推理