Comparison
[kəm'pærɪs(ə)n] or [kəm'pærɪsn]
解释:
(noun.) the act of examining resemblances; 'they made a comparison of noise levels'; 'the fractions selected for comparison must require pupils to consider both numerator and denominator'.
(noun.) qualities that are comparable; 'no comparison between the two books'; 'beyond compare'.
(noun.) relation based on similarities and differences.
艾娜录入--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) The act of comparing; an examination of two or more objects with the view of discovering the resemblances or differences; relative estimate.
(n.) The state of being compared; a relative estimate; also, a state, quality, or relation, admitting of being compared; as, to bring a thing into comparison with another; there is no comparison between them.
(n.) That to which, or with which, a thing is compared, as being equal or like; illustration; similitude.
(n.) The modification, by inflection or otherwise, which the adjective and adverb undergo to denote degrees of quality or quantity; as, little, less, least, are examples of comparison.
(n.) A figure by which one person or thing is compared to another, or the two are considered with regard to some property or quality, which is common to them both; e.g., the lake sparkled like a jewel.
(n.) The faculty of the reflective group which is supposed to perceive resemblances and contrasts.
(v. t.) To compare.
达琳录入
同义词及近义词：
n. [1]. Collation, COMPARE, relative estimate, comparative estimate.[2]. Simile, similitude.
乔安娜录入
同义词及反义词：
[See LIKENESS]
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例句:
- She could never do enough for me and was remarkably softened now in comparison with what she had been when we first knew her. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- I had always felt my weakness, in comparison with her constancy and fortitude; and now I felt it more and more. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- That the United States has from the beginning far outstripped the rest of the civilized world in the growth of the telephone is shown by comparison. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- The militarism and imperialism of Britain and France and Italy are by comparison feeble, disorganized, and disorganizing survivals. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- In comparison with his brother, Edmund would have nothing to say. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
- An involuntary comparison between Mr. Lennox and Mr. Thornton arose in her mind. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
- But study of cases of success and failure and minute and extensive comparison, helps to seize upon causes. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- The Latin tribes on the other side of the Tiber were by comparison barbaric. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- All these differences prevent or weaken the comparison, and consequently the passion. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
- The church, in comparison with its later state, was more in the hands of local laymen and the local ruler; it lacked its later universality. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- At Oxford I have been a good deal used to have a man lean on me for the length of a street, and you are only a fly in the comparison. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
- What does it offer in comparison with, as balanced over against, some other possibility? 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- Altogether they were not unlovely when viewed in comparison with the green Martians. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- Such is the plain story of Gautama as we gather it from a comparison of early writings. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Two colours, that are of the same kind, may yet be of different shades, and in that respect admit of comparison. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
- By two comparisons so disadvantageous the passion must be entirely destroyed. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
- I shall hereafter have occasion to make several comparisons of this kind. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- The cultivation and garnering of crops from such vast areas can only be appreciated by comparisons. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- The most satisfactory comparisons were rising in her mind. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
- His master's observations upon the constitution and administration of England, as described by the author, with parallel cases and comparisons. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
- She was pretty tooat least I thought so THEN; and I had seen so little of other women, that I could make no comparisons, and see no defects. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
- Yes: I have thought over your life just as you have yourself thought it over; I have made comparisons like those to which you adverted. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- I will not sit here, and hear such comparisons made. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- And were it not for certain ugly comparisons, hard to be suppressed, the pleasure arising from such a research would be without alloy. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
- Such comparisons, however, between the profit and expense of new projects are commonly very fallacious; and in nothing more so than in agriculture. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
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