equate
verbVerb Forms
Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they equate | |
| he / she / it equates | |
| past simple equated | |
| past participle equated | |
| -ing form equating |
- equate something (with something)
to think that something is the same as something else or is as important 同等看待；使等同 Some parents equate education with exam success. 有些父母认为教育就是考试成绩优秀。 I don't see how you can equate the two things. 我不明白你怎么能把这两件事等同起来。
Extra ExamplesInvention and progress do not necessarily equate with improvement. 发明和进步不一定意味着改进。 It's hard to equate this gentle woman with the monster portrayed in the newspapers. 很难将这个文雅的女子与报纸上描述的魔鬼画等号。 Money cannot be equated with happiness. 金钱和幸福之间不能画上等号。 The constellations in the night sky cannot be directly equated with the heroes of Greek mythology. 夜空中的星座不能直接与希腊神话中的英雄相等同。 We are taught to equate beauty with success. 我们受到的教育让我们把美丽和成功等同起来。 crudely equating happiness with a high income 粗浅地将幸福等同于高收入
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- directly
- roughly
- simply
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- can
- be difficult to
- be hard to
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- with
Word OriginMiddle English (in the sense ‘make equal, balance’): from Latin aequat- ‘made level or equal’, from the verb aequare, from aequus ‘even, level, equal’. Current senses date from the mid 19th cent.