LIKE/SIMILARif there is a resemblance between two people or things, they are similar, especially in the way they look 〔尤指样子〕相似,类似 → similarity
resemblance between
The resemblance between Susan and her sister was remarkable.
苏珊和她的姐姐十分相像。
bear a (close/striking/uncanny etc) resemblance to somebody/something (=look like) 与某人/某事物(非常/惊人地/不可思议地等)相似
Tina bears a striking resemblance to her mother.
蒂娜酷似她的母亲。
bear little/no resemblance to somebody/something
What happens in the film bears little resemblance to what actually happened.
电影里的情节和真实故事几乎毫无相似之处。
nCOLLOCATIONS
ADJECTIVES/NOUNS + resemblance
a close resemblance
The vase bore a close resemblance to one owned by my mother.
a strong resemblance
This slender, feathery herb has a strong resemblance to fennel.
a striking resemblance (=very strong and noticeable)
There's a striking resemblance between the two boys.
a remarkable resemblance (=unusual or surprising)
Everyone notices the remarkable resemblance between Mathilda and Anne.
an uncanny resemblance (=noticeable and difficult to explain)
I'd always thought that Jo and Freddie had an uncanny resemblance.
a slight/faint resemblance (=not strong)
Don't you think she has a slight resemblance to that blonde singer in Abba?
a passing resemblance (=slight)
There was no more than a passing resemblance between the sisters.
a superficial resemblance (=when something seems to look like something else, but is in fact quite different)
Its spines give it a superficial resemblance to a hedgehog.
somebody's physical resemblance to somebody
People often commented on his physical resemblance to his father.
a family resemblance (=between members of the same family)
I couldn't detect any family resemblance.
verbs
bear/have a resemblance to somebody/something
People said he bore a striking resemblance to the president.
bear little/no resemblance to somebody/something
He bore little resemblance to the photograph in the newspaper.
phrase
there the resemblance ends (=they are not similar in any other way)
They are both strong-minded women, but there the resemblance ends.
Examples from the Corpus
resemblance• When you look at this painting and the one by Rembrandt, there is certainly a resemblance.• In its structure and methods, the programbears a strong and not accidentalresemblance to the United States PeaceCorps.• Although the fish have little externalresemblance to each other, skeletally they are quite similar.• When he met Francesca's aunt he was instantly struck by the family resemblance.• The Japanesemapleleaf bears a striking resemblance to a marijuana leaf.• The Sovietambassador to the United Nations and other officials noted the resemblance between the two proposals.• How I hated these portraits, the photographs, the resemblances!• Unfortunately the resemblance ends there as his songs are nowhere near as good as the master's.• The policies of central banks in the post-cold war years bear an uncannyresemblance to those of the 1920s.• He was dressed in the garb of a Catholicpriest and he bore an uncanny resemblance to the now legendary Spencer Tracy.
resemblance between• You can see a family resemblance between me and UncleMike.
ADJECTIVE | VERB + RESEMBLANCE | RESEMBLANCE + VERB | PREPOSITIONADJECTIVE➤close, great, marked, remarkable, striking, strong十分相似;極為相似;顯著的相似之處;驚人的相似▸➤eerie, uncanny詭異的/離奇的相似◇She has an uncanny resemblance to her sister.她跟妹妹長得出奇地像。➤obvious明顯的相似▸➤faint, passing, slight, superficial略微的/微小的/細微的/表面上的相似之處➤little幾乎沒有相似之處◇two actors bearing little resemblance to each other彼此幾乎沒什麼相似之處的兩位演員➤physical體貌上的相似▸➤family家人間的相似VERB + RESEMBLANCE➤bear, have, show有相似之處;顯出相似之處◇The story of the movie bears more than a passing resemblance to 'Tom Sawyer'.這部影片的情節與《湯姆・索亞歷險記》不只是一點點的相似。➤note, notice, see察覺到/注意到/看出相似之處◇I can see the family resemblance.我能看出家人之間的相似之處。RESEMBLANCE + VERB➤end相似處僅此而已◇They are both called Brad, but there the resemblance ends (= they are not similar to each other in any other way).他們倆都叫布拉德,不過除此之外別無相似之處。PREPOSITION➤resemblance between⋯之間的相似之處◇There is a close resemblance between her and her daughter.她和她女兒長得很像。➤resemblance to像⋯◇Crocodiles still have a strong resemblance to their ancestors.鱷魚和它們的祖先仍然極其相似。