resemble, collate, compare, contrast
这四个词都有“比较”的意思。它们的区别是：
compare意为“比较”,着重“相似之处”; contrast意为“对比”,着重“相异处”; collate表示“对照”,强调认真仔细,细致入微,常用于书报的校勘; resemble意为“类似”,着重强调视觉上感觉相像。例如:
Compare these examples of Rembrandt's early and late styles.比较这些代表伦勃朗早期和晚期风格的作品。
Collate a new edition with an earlier edition.将新版本与旧版本详细比较。
I contrasted John's report card with Mary's to show him how poorly he was doing.我把约翰的成绩单同玛丽的作一下对比,以示他的成绩多么坏。
That boy resembles his mother.那男孩酷似他的妈妈。
All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites.
所有其他寡头政治家, 即使那些同我们相象的人, 也都是些懦夫和伪君子.
英汉文学
He was so enraged that his face resembled a red flag.
他很愤怒,他的脸胀红得象块红布.
辞典例句
Hadlow noticed that the vacuoles in Gajdusek's kuru brains resembled those he'd seen in sheep.
哈德劳发现,在加达塞克氏库鲁病脑中的空泡与他在羊中所见的空泡相像.
英汉非文学 - 生命科学 - 口蹄疫疯牛病
More and more she resembled the dead film star.
她越来越像那位已故的影星了.
——英汉非文学 - 科幻
By then the barren plain resembled the world before the birth of Sui - jen Shih.
此时此刻的荒野宛如燧人氏未生以前的世界.
汉英文学 - 围城
The Mercury resembled an oversized Ford.
林肯车象是一部过于庞大的福特车.
辞典例句
When she smiled, her eyes resembled a pair of crescent moons.
她那双眼睛,笑起来就像一对月牙儿.
汉英文学 - 现代散文
It'soon resembled reason manipulated by the sophists.
它能很快编造出那些只有诡辩论者才能列举的理由.
辞典例句
Puny and sorry as those lives were, they much resembled his own.
它们的生命是那样渺小,那样可怜, 和他自己的非常相似.
辞典例句
The progeny resembled one of the other of the parents.
后代象亲本的一方或另一方.
辞典例句
This engine resembled present single - acting gas and oil engines.
这台发动机类似目前的单作用煤气和重油发动机.
辞典例句
It resembled the face of a sheep, and the voice, too, had a sheep - like quality.
这张脸好比是张绵羊脸, 连讲话的声音也是绵羊调.
英汉文学
In many ways, the place resembled the busy young city of the Confederacy's early days.
在很多方面, 这个地方很像南部联盟初期那个热闹的年轻都会.
飘（部分）
The heads of the horses resembled the heads of lions.
马的头好象狮子头.
辞典例句
He was a man of much worldly wisdom, and in some ways resembled Voltaire.
他精于人情世故, 在某些方面酷似伏尔泰.
辞典例句
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