| 单词 | analogy |
| 释义 | analogy (once / 473 pages) n When you draw an analogy between two things, you compare them for the purpose of explanation. The movie character Forrest Gump made a silly analogy famous: "Life is like a box of chocolates." Some standardized tests still have "analogy questions," which are given in this format: A : B :: C : ___ (read "A is to B as C is to what?"). This is a more formalized version of something we do every day: compare one thing to another. It's a useful way of speaking — if a scientist explains that the earth's forests function as its lungs, we understand the analogy to mean that both trees and lungs take in important elements from the air. But when Forrest Gump says life is like a box of chocolates because you never know what you're going to get, that's a pretty brainless analogy. WORD FAMILYanalogy: analogical, analogies, analogise, analogist, analogize, analogous+/analogical: analogically/analogist: analogists/analogize: analogizes, analogizing/analogous: analogously USAGE EXAMPLESIn some important respects, this is a bad analogy. Slate(Dec 26, 2016) But this is an inane analogy, I realize, because I do not want to touch the heart of the matter. The New Yorker(Dec 25, 2016) Paul Rankin’s Dec. 14 letter, “The science isn’t settled,” contained unsettling analogies. Washington Post(Dec 19, 2016) 1n drawing a comparison in order to show a similarity in some respect the operation of a computer presents and interesting analogy to the working of the brain the models show by analogy how matter is built up Hyper comparing, comparison the act of examining resemblances 2n an inference that if things agree in some respects they probably agree in others Hyper illation, inference the reasoning involved in drawing a conclusion or making a logical judgment on the basis of circumstantial evidence and prior conclusions rather than on the basis of direct observation 3n the religious belief that between creature and creator no similarity can be found so great but that the dissimilarity is always greater; any analogy between God and humans will always be inadequate Syn|Ant|Hyper doctrine of analogy apophatism the religious belief that God cannot be known but is completely `other' and must be described in negative terms (in terms of what God is not) cataphatismthe religious belief that God has given enough clues to be known to humans positively and affirmatively (e.g., God created Adam `in his own image') faith, religion, religious belief a strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny |
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