comparable in certain respects, typically in a way which makes clearer the nature of the things compared 可比拟的 they saw the relationship between a ruler and his subjects as analogous to that of father and children. 他们认为统治者和臣民的关系可比拟成父亲和孩子的关系。 ■(Biology)(of organs) performing a similar function but having a different evolutionary origin, such as the wings of insects and birds (生)(器官)同功的。 常与 homologous 相对
派生 analogously adverb 语源
mid 17th cent.: via Latin from Greek analogos 'proportionate' + -ous