resemble
verb [no passive]Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they resemble | |
he / she / it resembles | |
past simple resembled | |
past participle resembled | |
past simple resembling | |
past participle resembling |
- resemble somebody/something
to look like or be similar to another person or thing 看起来像;显得像;像 She closely resembles her sister. 她和她姐姐很像。 So many hotels resemble each other. 许多酒店看上去都差不多。 The plant resembles grass in appearance. 这种植物的外形像草。
Extra ExamplesHe very much resembles a friend of mine. 他和我的一个朋友非常相像。 I have never seen anything remotely resembling the horrors of that day. 我从没见过像那天那么恐怖的景象。 Neither achieved anything resembling their former success. 他们俩都没有取得以前那样的成就。 The house was designed to resemble a church. 这个房子刻意设计得像教堂。 The meat resembles chicken in flavour. 这种肉和鸡肉味道相近。 a fight for something resembling justice 为公正之类的事业而奋斗
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- closely
- greatly
- strongly
- …
- be designed to
- tend to
- in
- anything resembling something
- something resembling something
Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French resembler, based on Latin similare (from similis ‘like’).