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1 writtenEQUAL someone or something that is considered to be just as good as a more famous person or thing 相当的人；不相上下的事物

The Space Needle is Seattle’s answer to the Eiffel Tower.

西雅图的太空针塔堪比艾菲尔铁塔。

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somebody’s answer to something• The Space Needle is Seattle's answer to the Eiffel Tower.• A third consideration draws attention to the association between answers to the Ten Statements Test, and another set of factors.• An answer to that question might give clues to the broader question of the function of sleep.• At first glance the answer to this question too seems to be in the negative.• Do you really want to hear the answers to all those questions?• I never did get an answer to that final one.• Send your answers to Link editor, , .• The answer to that question depends in part on your business.• The attendant was entirely honest in his answers to my questions and in the amount of fuel he pumped.

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2 phrasal verbphr v

a) EXPLAINto give an explanation to someone, especially about something that you have done wrong 向…负责，对…作出解释〔尤指错事〕

Phipps answers to me and me alone.

菲普斯只向我一个人负责。

b) answer to the name of something to be called a particular name – used humorously 名叫，叫做〔幽默用法〕

a well-dressed young woman answering to the name of Suzanne

一个穿着讲究的年轻女子，芳名苏珊

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answer to the name of something• One answering to the name of Henry.• He's 6 foot 5, but he answers to the name of Shorty.• Relieved of her professional role, she manifested herself as an attractive well-dressed young woman answering to the name of Suzanne.

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