analogy
n. 类比,比喻; 类推
If you make or draw an analogy between two things, you show that they are similar in some way.
It is probably easier to make an analogy between the courses of the planets, and two trains travelling in the same direction.
将行星的运行比作两列火车朝同一方向行驶可能更容易些。
1. an inference that if things agree in some respects they probably agree in others
2. drawing a comparison in order to show a similarity in some respect;
3. 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
similarity, resemblance, analogy, likeness
这些名词均含"相似,类似"之意。
It is not always reliable to argue by analogy.
靠类推法论证并不总是可靠的.
A close analogy with the art of singing can be made.
可以用歌唱艺术作类比.
I wasn't making analogy between the Iraq war and ChangE 1.
我并不是在伊拉克战争和长征一号两者间做类比.
I do not see why we should not make use of this analogy.
我不明确我们为什么不能利用这种类比.
A nonphysics analogy illustrates the nature of conservation law.
我们用一个非物理学的比喻来说明守恒定律的性质.