analogous to/with• A self-sufficientsettlement is analogous to a pin worker who must cut, bend, attach, and deliver by himself.• The situation is analogous to another regulator in the body-the one controllingweight.• This process is in many ways analogous todeductive reasoning.• Moving clockwise, orange is analogous to red.• But, contrary to popularbelief, they are not at all analogous totaperecorders.• Bandwidth is analogous to the number of lanes on a highway.• The relation between the fabula and the syuzhet is roughly analogous to the one between practical and poetic language.• In such a situation behaviour is understood to be analogous to war.
Originanalogous
(1600-1700)Latinanalogus, from Greekanalogos, from ana-“according to” + logos“reason, ratio”
VERBS | ADVERB | PREPOSITIONVERBS➤be相似➤appear, seem似乎類似;看起來相似ADVERB➤closely極為相似▸➤directly, exactly完全相似▸➤broadly, roughly, somewhat (especially NAmE) 大致/大體/有些相似◇The two situations are roughly analogous.兩種情況大致相似。PREPOSITION➤to和⋯相似◇The company is in a position closely analogous to that of its main rival.該公司與其主要競爭對手的處境極為相似。➤with和⋯類似◇The national debt is analogous with private debt.國債和私人債務類似。