| 单词 | like |
| 释义 | like I. transitive verb 1. chiefly dialect < at first in heart it liked me ill — Sir Walter Scott > < till then, if it likes you — Andrew Lang > 2. a. < which friend he likes best > : favor < likes some vegetables and dislikes others > : enjoy < likes doing business with them > b. < I like onions but they don't like me > : become < she likes red but it doesn't like her > — usually used in negative constructions 3. < how would you like to lose your job > < how do you like her new hat > < learning how he liked the new worker > 4. < do not like anybody to touch my things — Marjorie Osterman > — often used with a conditional auxiliary < would like a drink > < would like you to do it > < would like it returned soon > < isn't as widely circulated as we would like for it to be — E.B.Atwood > < would like for you to look this over > : incline, prefer < cases in which the doctor likes to give an injection > intransitive verb 1. obsolete < quinces … will not like in our cold parts — William Lawson > 2. now dialect < I daredn't do't; my master wouldn't like of it — Anne Baker > 3. < had salmon almost any time he liked — Edison Marshall > 4. < would rather like than criticize — E.A.Weeks > Synonyms: < liked inns, and farmers, and loafers on the river — H.S.Canby > love (opposed to hate) does imply ardent attachment and great warmth < I love Henry, but I cannot like him; and as for taking his arm I should as soon think of taking the arm of an elm tree — R.W.Emerson > < they loved Maurice too, but more mildly. And, very temperately, they liked their Aunt Rome — Rose Macaulay > < loved to roam and was passionately fond of beauty both in nature and in art — H.E.Starr > enjoy suggests taking pleasure or satisfaction in possessing, using, being with, or appreciating what one likes or loves < enjoy a finer degree of civilization than the individuals and the nations around us — Havelock Ellis > < seemed to enjoy the beautiful site of that building — Willa Cather > relish applies to an enjoying and savoring of something that gives one peculiar satisfaction or gratification < a paradox that the happiest, most vigorous, and most confident ages which the world has ever known — the Periclean and the Elizabethan — should be exactly those which created and which most relished the mightiest tragedies — J.W.Krutch > < a few hundred (not more) choice-loving connoisseurs relish him as the most perfect opportunist in prose — Christopher Morley > fancy may apply to a liking or a taking pleasure in something appealing to one's imagination or to one's personal tastes or whims < yachts, horses, whatever he fancied — George Meredith > < would he really fancy a little farm somewhere inland, or would he die of the landlocked loneliness — Frank Ritchie > dote may indicate an excessive or compulsive fondness and liking, often foolish or infatuated < he doted on his daughter Mary; she could do no wrong — Walter Havighurst > < you know how servants are. They dote on such yarns — L.C.Douglas > II. 1. < has so many likes in life — and almost as many dislikes — Times Literary Supplement > < he now takes violent likes to people — H.J.Laski > 2. < black in summer is one of her likes — Holiday > III. 1. a. < members of the cat family have like dispositions > < fabrics of like consistency > : equal or nearly equal < gave one six blows and the other a like number > < gave a thousand dollars before and a like sum now > < his own card and others of like value — J.B.Pick > : corresponding < the like period during the preceding year > : identical, indistinguishable < as like as two peas > : similar < hospitals and like institutions for the sick or disabled > — formerly used with as, unto, of < in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren — Heb. 2:17 (Authorized Version) > — formerly and sometimes now used with to, with < like to the soft caress bestowed … by loving fingers — Phoenix Flame > < an old Greek was a being of like passions with a modern Engishman — E.A.Freeman > b. < a boxlike seedpod > < a homelike atmosphere > < a lifelike statue > < doglike existence > — used with a hyphen after nouns in -ll < bell-like > and often in nonce or infrequent compounds < president-like > < opium-like > c. < the finished portrait being ever so like > 2. a. < the importance of statistics as the one discipline like to give accuracy of mind — H.J.Laski > b. < it's like to drive me crazy > 3. < ladylike behavior > < lawyerlike argumentation > Synonyms: < convicing only to himself, or to a limited circle of like minds — Times Literary Supplement > alike is similar to like but is less likely to be used for the chance, farfetched resemblance and is generally limited to use in a predicate or postposed situation after a compounded substantive modified < their resemblance as brother and sister … they looked utterly alike — Sinclair Lewis > similar often stresses the likenesses between different things, implying that differences may be overlooked or ignored for a time < Virginia creeper or the deceptively similar poison ivy — American Guide Series: Maryland > < regard the attraction which illusion has for us as similar to that which a flame at night has for a moth — M.R.Cohen > analogous indicates presence of some likeness which makes it feasible or permissible to draw from it an analogy, a sustained or appropriate comparison < the two new states would have a position analogous to that of British Dominions — Manchester Guardian Weekly > < quite analogous to the emotionalizing of Christian art is the example afforded by the evolution of the Latin hymn — H.O.Taylor > comparable indicates a likeness on one point or a limited number of points which permits a limited or casual comparison or matching together < the Syrians … with Arabian coffee, served thick and strong in tiny cups, as a national drink comparable to the Englishman's tea — American Guide Series: Rhode Island > comparable is especially likely to be used in connection with considerations of merit, standing, rank, or power < neither in military nor industrial terms is China comparable to the other three great powers — Vera M. Dean > akin, limited to use in postpositive situations, indicates an essential likeness, sometimes the sort of likeness found in kinship, in common descent from an original ancestor, prototype, or ancestral stock < the Mongols of Outer Mongolia … are akin to those of the neighboring Buryat-Mongol A.S.S.R. — Foreign Affairs > < real nursery tales, akin to Brer Rabbit — Times Literary Supplement > < science … is akin to democracy in its faith in human intelligence and cooperative effort — H.J.Muller > parallel is used to indicate the fact of similarities over a course of development throughout a history or account or the fact of resemblances or likenesses permitting a setting or bracketing together as though side by side < the almost parallel growth of the Twin Cities — American Guide Series: Minnesota > < parallel to the classic and academic Italian school was one with a more distinctive native feeling — Paul Manship > < parallel to the powers of the king were the powers of the father in the individual household — Ralph Linton > uniform suggests a likeness and similarity throughout, a lack of noticeable variation wherever things in question occur or operate < one of the most fundamental social interests is that law shall be uniform and impartial — B.N.Cardozo > < schools … no longer expect all children to learn to read at a uniform rate — Education Digest > identical indicates either the fact of being the same person or thing or, in connection with things copied, reproduced, or repeated, an exact correspondence with no significant difference being involved < George Eliot and Mary Ann Evans were identical > < the interests of workers and their employers were not altogether identical — M.R.Cohen > < his home life and his life as a man of letters are never identical — H.S.Canby > • - like as we lie - something like IV. 1. a. < made it hard for you and your like — C.S.Lewis > : counterpart < not less talented than his French or English like — New Republic > : equal < scarcely expect to hear its like again — A.N.Whitehead > — usually used with a possessive adjective b. archaic < like breeds like > 2. • - the like - the like of V. 1. archaic < hut and palace show like filthily — Lord Byron > 2. < you'll try it, some day, like enough — Mark Twain > 3. a. < a small-like wagon > adverbs < saunter over nonchalantly like — Walter Karig > verbs and verb-adverb phrases < he shrunk up like and went away > and sentences < they were working in the field, like > b. substandard < little sort of pictures like on his hat > < valley surrounded with like little mountains > c. substandard < raise the children decent like > < he spoke knowing-like > 4. < the real rates … are more like 18 per thousand — B.K.Sandwell > • - as like as not VI. 1. a. < was like him to remember us at Christmas > < isn't that just like a man > b. < no place like home > < no fool like an old fool > < nothing like a warm bath for relaxing > < never saw anything like it > c. < what is she like > < learn what skiing is like > d. < was autocratic but dictators are like that > < have great respect for a man like that > : of the kind represented by < keep people like him in line > 2. a. < returned home like a dutiful son > < act like gentlemen > < treated him like a hero > b. < stop crying like this > < can't do it like that > c. < take the wheel and see what it drives like > 3. a. < foxes are like dogs > < she looks like her sister > < understood the English character, so much like his own — W.C.Ford > < our notion of fair play, like theirs, includes the opponent — Margaret Mead > : of a character or in a manner suggesting < vitamins that are like candy — Journal American Medical Association > < the mist is thick like white cotton — Vicki Baum > : resembling, approaching < has done something like justice to its complexity — Lewis Mumford > b. < heard sounds like a motor running > 4. — used correlatively with the force of as … so < like master, like man > 5. a. < looks like rain > < looks like good fishing > b. < felt like a hypocrite > < looks like a smart boy > : as is characteristic of or usual to < sounds like thunder > < tastes like grape to me > < feeling like himself again > 6. < traditional concerns like law and literature — G.B.Saul > 7. — used to form intensive or ironic phrases < worked like a house afire > < rub out … a backache like nobody's business — Fannie Hurst > < sold like hot cakes > < screamed like hell > < fight like the devil > < hurt like anything > < like fun he did > • - like a book - like that VII. 1. a. archaic < the look is vivid still nor seems like dead — Thomas Creech > b. — used in intensive phrases < waved like mad > < dancing like crazy > 2. < impromptu programs where they ask questions much like I do on the air — Art Linkletter > — often followed by a noun or pronoun representing an incomplete clause whose verb would be the same as that of the main clause < took to figures like a duck to water > < looks like they can raise better tobacco — Caroline Gordon > < looks like he will get the job > 3. < wore his clothes like he was … afraid of getting dirt on them — St. Petersburg (Fla.) Independent > < was like he's come back from a long trip > < acted like she felt sick > — used especially with intransitive verbs of the senses < sounded like the motor had stopped > 4. < the violin now sounds like an old masterpiece should — Baton > : in the manner that < did it like he told me to > 5. a. < wanted a doll like she saw in the store window > : such as < anomalies like just had occurred — New Republic > b. < it was a little like when the war came — Gouverneur Paulding > 6. < when your car gives trouble — like when the motor won't start > < things that were beginning increasingly to come up — like next week every rifle … had to be turned in — James Jones > VIII. or liked now substandard < had four quarrels and like to have fought one — Shakespeare > < these fellows … had like to a been whipped — Anne Royall > < it liked to killed me — John Dos Passos > and sometimes in that form with a substandard past participle identical with a past tense form < I liked to have went crazy — Stetson Kennedy > < so loud I like to fell out of bed — Helen Eustis > IX. obsolete < like me to the peasant boys of France — Shakespeare > X. chiefly South & Midland variant of lack XI. — used in speech and informal writing to focus attention on a following word, phrase, or clause < terribly upset … like, the most upset I've ever been — Truman Capote > < he was, like, gorgeous > or to soften or deemphasize a preceding or following word or phrase < I'm like the straightest member of my family — Huey Lewis > < I need to, like, borrow some money > or to suggest approximation < I've been waiting, like, ten minutes > |
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