Analogy

(noun.) 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'.

(noun.) an inference that if things agree in some respects they probably agree in others.

汉尼巴尔手打

• The influence of analogy led him to invent 'parallels and conjugates' and to overlook facts. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• If it be analogous, we may hope to explain its causes from analogy, and trace it up to more general principles. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• The analogy was well meant, but did not altogether please him. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• The hardiness of their ordinary life prepares them for the fatigues of war, to some of which their necessary occupations bear a great analogy. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• If I get wrong in my reasoning, recollect, it is you who adopted the analogy. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• Is it possible, I wonder, that there was any analogy between the case of the Coketown population and the case of the little Gradgrinds? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• I should argue, by analogy, that to anybody else, I must be a very desirable object. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Many people have sought an analogy in our Civil War. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• There is analogy between the moral and physical atmosphere. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Only when the abolition of white slavery becomes part of the social currents of the time will it bear any interesting analogy to the so-called freeing of the slaves. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• But surely the analogy is superficial; the difference profound. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• He is made to admit that justice is a thief, and that the virtues follow the analogy of the arts. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• And yet in the absurdities which follow from some uses of the analogy, there seems to be an intimation conveyed that virtue is more than art. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Socrates is quite ready to accept the new position, which he equally turns against Thrasymachus by the help of the analogy of the arts. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Then here, you say, is where your analogy between the camera and the eye falls down. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• In this respect he is far below Aristotle, who is comparatively seldom imposed upon by false analogies. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Various analogies next pointed to the use of heat, and the thermoelectric cell emerged, embodying the application of flame to the junction of two different metals. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• There would be no more empty taboos, no erecting of institutions upon abstract and mechanical analogies. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Continuing the c omparison in either direction, up or down the lists, one could readily detect other analogies. 李贝. 西洋科学史.

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