like /laɪk, laɪk/ CET4

• 1. 

  PREP If you say that one person or thing is like another, you mean that they share some of the same qualities or features. 像

  例：

  He looks like Father Christmas.

  他长得像圣诞老人。

  例：

  It's a bit like going to the dentist; it's never as bad as you fear.

  这有点像去看牙医，它决不像你所担心的那样糟糕。

  例：

  It's nothing like what happened in the mid-Seventies.

  那根本不像发生在七十年代中期的事情。

• 2. 

  PREP If you talk about what something or someone is like, you are talking about their qualities or features. (指人或事物的品质、特点) 像…样

  例：

  What was Bulgaria like?

  保加利亚情况怎么样？

  例：

  What did she look like?

  她长什么样？

• 3. 

  PREP You can use like to introduce an example of the set of things or people that you have just mentioned. 例如 [n PREP n/-ing]

  例：

  The neglect that large cities like New York have received over the past 12 years is tremendous.

  诸如纽约这样的大城市在过去12年里所受到的忽视是巨大的。

• 4. 

  PREP You can use like to say that someone or something is in the same situation as another person or thing. 像…一样

  例：

  It also moved those who, like me, are too young to have lived through the war.

  它也感动了那些跟我一样、太年轻而没有经历过战争的人。

• 5. 

  PREP If you say that someone is behaving like something or someone else, you mean that they are behaving in a way that is typical of that kind of thing or person. Like is used in this way in many fixed expressions, for example, to cry like a baby and to watch someone like a hawk. 像…一样 [v PREP n]

  例：

  I was shaking all over, trembling like a leaf.

  我浑身颤抖、像一片叶子似的抖动。

• 6. 

  CONJ Like is sometimes used as a conjunction in order to say that something appears to be the case when it is not. Some people consider this use to be incorrect. 仿佛

  例：

  His arms look like they might snap under the weight of his gloves.

  他的双臂看起来好像要在他手套的重压下突然折断似的。

• 7. 

  CONJ Like is sometimes used as a conjunction in order to indicate that something happens or is done in the same way as something else. Some people consider this use to be incorrect. 像…那样

  例：

  People are strolling, buying ice cream for their children, just like they do every Sunday.

  人们散着步，给孩子们买着冰淇淋，就像他们每个周日做的一样。

  例：

  He spoke exactly like I did.

  他说得跟我一模一样。

• 8. 

  PREP You can use like in negative expressions such as nothing like it and no place like it to emphasize that there is nothing as good as the situation, thing, or person mentioned. (用于否定式短语中) 比得上 [with neg] [强调]

  例：

  There's nothing like candlelight for creating a romantic mood.

  没有什么比烛光更能营造浪漫氛围了。

• 9. 

  PREP You can use like in expressions such as nothing like to make an emphatic negative statement. 用于固定短语中表否定强调 [with neg] [强调]

  例：

  Three hundred million dollars will be nothing like enough.

  3亿美元根本不够。

• 10. 

  ADJ similar; resembling 相似的