1 (also much the same (as something))LIKE/SIMILAR used to say that something is very similar to something else 很像某事物,和某事物几乎一样
The house was very much as I’d remembered it.
那房子和我记忆中的几乎完全一样。
The taste is much like butter.
这味道很像黄油。
Plants are classified in much the same way as animals.
植物分类的方式和动物的分类方法差不多。
Examples from the Corpus
much like something/much as• For at school, the young man would be surrounded by men much like him-self.• What he wanted, of course, was for me to write as much like he did as I possibly could.• Based on one of Aesop's fables, it was as much like a limerick as one of Shakespeare's sonnets.• They like their bikes to be as much like cars aspossible.• The spaceinside looked as much like a junkyard as the space outside.