likeness

B1 大学 FREQ #15087 ★☆☆☆☆

n. 相象, 相似物, 样子

发音

其它 /ˈlaɪknəs/

词形变化

likenesses 复数 likenesses likenessed likenesses 三单 likenessing likenessing 现在分词 likenessed 过去式 likenessed 过去分词

教材释义与例句

名词

相似，相像；样子，肖像；照片，画像；相似物

释义与例句

n. B1
  1. 1.

    The state or quality of being like or alike.

    I bear no likeness to my parents whatsoever.

  2. 2.

    Appearance or form; guise.

    A foe in the likeness of a friend

    And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

  3. 3.

    That which closely resembles; a portrait.

    How he looked, the likenesses of him which still remain enable us to imagine.

v.
  1. 1.

    To depict.

    古体 及物

    I have this morning received the photographs of my two boys. The eldest is very well likenessed: the other, perhaps, not so well.

    Every member of the family [of General Grant] is as faithfully likenessed as the photographs, which were given to the artist from the hands of the General himself, have power to express.

词汇关系

名词

同义词 3

semblance alikeness similitude

反义词 1

unlikeness

上位词 5

picture image icon similarity ikon

下位词 10

compare portrait reflection comparison resemblance portrayal identikit naturalness equivalence mirror image

词源

From Middle English liknesse, from Old English līcness, ġelīcnes (“the quality of being like or equal; likeness; image; copy; pattern; example; parable”), from Proto-West Germanic *galīkanassī (“likeness”), equivalent to like + -ness. Cognate with West Frisian likenis (“likeness”), Dutch gelijkenis (“similarity; likeness; parable”), German Low German Glieknis (“form; semblance; likeness; parable”), German Gleichnis (“form; semblance; image; likeness; parable; simile”). The verb is derived from the noun. Compare also Old Norse líkneskja (“figure, image, appearance, likeness”).

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