n.
    
      - 比較,對照;類似[C][U][(+between/with)]
 
      - 比喻[C][U]
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His 
comparison of the heart to a pump helped the children understand its action.
他將心臟比作打氣筒(抽水機)有助於孩子們了解心臟的作用。
 
      - 【文】(形容詞或副詞的)比較[U][C]
 
    
   
  片語
  
    by comparison
    
      - 相比之下
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The old car suffers 
by comparison.
舊汽車相形見絀。
 
    
    in comparison with
    
      - 與……相比
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He is quite tall 
in comparison with his classmates.
與他同學相比,他相當高。
 
    
    bear/stand comparison with
    
      - 比得上
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This is a good book, but it cannot 
stand comparison with that one.
這本書很好,但是比不上那本。
 
    
    beyond/out of all/without comparison
    
      - 無與倫比
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Her looks are 
beyond comparison.
她的美貌無與倫比。
 
    
   
  辨析
  
 
  n.
  - an act of comparing. 
▸the quality of being similar or equivalent.
 - Grammar  the formation of the comparative and superlative forms of adjectives and adverbs.
 
 
  Phrase
  
    
      - beyond comparison
 another way of saying beyond compare (see compare). 
    
   
  Etymology
  ME: from OFr. comparesoun, from L. comparatio(n-), from comparare (see compare).