analogy
n. 類比,比喻; 類推
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.
將行星的執行比作兩列火車朝同一方向行駛可能更容易些。
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
這些名詞均含"相似,類似"之意。
It is not always reliable to argue by analogy.
靠類推法論證並不總是可靠的.
A close analogy with the art of singing can be made.
可以用歌唱藝術作類比.
I wasn't making analogy between the Iraq war and ChangE 1.
我並不是在伊拉克戰爭和長征一號兩者間做類比.
I do not see why we should not make use of this analogy.
我不明確我們為什麼不能利用這種類比.
A nonphysics analogy illustrates the nature of conservation law.
我們用一個非物理學的比喻來說明守恆定律的性質.