similar to somebody/something else and able to be compared 类似的;可比较的 A comparable house in the south of the city would cost twice as much. 一栋类似的房子位于城南就要贵一倍。 - comparable to/with somebody/something
The situation in the US is not directly comparable to that in the UK. 美国的情况与英国的不能直接相比。 Inflation is now at a rate comparable with that in other European countries. 现在通货膨胀率已经和欧洲其他国家的差不多了。 - comparable in something
The two machines are comparable in size. 这两台机器大小相若。
Extra ExamplesIts brain is closely comparable to the brain of a chimpanzee. 它的大脑与黑猩猩的大脑非常类似。 No other country at that time had an organized public opinion remotely comparable to Britain's. 当时没有任何国家有英国那样的有组织舆论。 The earthquake was comparable with others in recent years. 这次地震与近年的数次地震相似。 The regional variation in Australian accent is not in any way comparable to that found in the UK or US. 澳大利亚口音的地域差异与英国或美国的根本没法比较。 There are no other scanners even remotely comparable to this in terms of quality of image produced. 就扫描出的图像质量而言,没有任何其他扫描仪可以与之媲美。 a job comparable to mine 可与我的工作相提并论的工作
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- become
- closely
- quite
- very
- …
- in
- to
- with
- …
- something comparable (to something)
- there is nothing comparable (to something)
Word Originlate Middle English: from Old French, from Latin comparabilis, from the verb comparare, from compar ‘like, equal’, from com- ‘with’ + par ‘equal’.