like v.（动词）liked,lik.ing,likes v.tr.（及物动词）To find pleasant or attractive; enjoy.喜欢：认为愉快或有吸引力；欣赏To want to have:想要：例句：would like some coffee.想要一点儿咖啡To feel about; regard:感到；认为：例句：How do you like her nerve!你对她的勇气怎么个看法Archaic To be pleasing to.【古语】 使快乐v.intr.（不及物动词）To have an inclination or a preference:偏好，愿意：例句：If you like, we can meet you there.如果你愿意的话，我们在那儿接你Scots To be pleased.【苏格兰】 高兴n.（名词）Something that is liked; a preference:喜爱的东西；爱好：例句：made a list of his likes and dislikes.把他喜好和讨厌的东西列了一张表来源：Middle English liken 中古英语 liken from Old English locian [to please] * see lok- 源自 古英语 locian [使高兴] *参见 lok- like,love,enjoy,relish,fancy,doteThese verbs mean to be attracted to or to find agreeable.这些动词都指被吸引或觉得愉悦。 Like, the least forceful, suggests mere interest, approval, or favor: Like 是强度最弱的一个，表示单纯的兴趣、满意或好感： 例句：.I may like him well enough; but you don`t love your servants. (Harriet Beecher Stowe)..我可能喜欢 他到了一定程度；但你不可能 爱 上你的仆人. （哈丽特·比彻·斯托）。 Love implies a strong attachment or intense affection and deep involvement on an emotional level: Love 暗示了强烈的依恋或感情和深深的不可自拔： 例句：.All his faults are such that one loves him still the better for them. (Oliver Goldsmith)..爱他的人反而因他的错误更爱. （奥利弗·戈德史密斯）。 Enjoy is applied to what gives personal satisfaction or pleasure: Enjoy 用来指可给予人们满足或愉悦感的东西： 例句：.There are two things to aim at in life:first, to get what you want;and after that, to enjoy it. (Logan Pearsall Smith)..人的一生必须以这两件事为目标：第一，要得到你想要的；然后享用它. （洛根·皮尔萨尔·史密斯）。 Relish applies to what moves one to keen or zestful appreciation: Relish 用于那些使人激烈或狂热欣赏的： 例句：.Every great and original writer . . . must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished. (William Wordsworth).Onefancies what appeals to one`s taste, inclination, imagination, or notion of what a person or thing should be: .任何伟大有创造力的作家……都必须创造出自己欣赏的风格. （威廉·华滋华斯）。一个人fancies 喜欢人或事物本身所适合自己的口味、爱好、想象或观点： 例句：She fancies elegant clothes and jewelry.她热衷于高雅的时装和珠宝。例句：Caviar is a delicacy, but few children fancy it.鱼子酱是一种精美的食品，但只有很少孩子喜欢它。Dote implies foolish, extravagant attachment: Dote 指愚蠢的、过份的依恋： 例句：He dotes on his grandchildren and indulges their every whim. 他溺爱自己的孙辈，并且满足他们的任何想法. ---------------另--------------likelike 2prep.（介词）Possessing the characteristics of; resembling closely; similar to.相似，类似：具有…的特点；相象；相似In the typical manner of:象：以…的典型方式：例句：It`s not like you to take offense.你不象会发脾气的人In the same way as:以与…同样的方式：例句：lived like royalty.过着帝王般的生活Inclined or disposed to:想要：倾向，有意于：例句：felt like running away.想要逃跑As if the probability exists for:象要：似有…的可能性：例句：looks like a bad year for farmers.看起来象农民的欠收年Such as; for example:例如；象一样：例句：saved things like old newspapers and pieces of string.收集起来的如旧报纸和绳子之类的东西adj.（形容词）Possessing the same or almost the same characteristics; similar:想似的：具有相同或几乎相同的特点；相近的：例句：on this and like occasions.这种和类似情况下Alike:相象的：例句：They are as like as two siblings.他们象是亲兄弟Having equivalent value or quality. Usually used in negative sentences:相等（价值，质量）：有相同价值或质量的。通常用于否定句中：例句：There`s nothing like a good night`s sleep.没什么比睡一夜好觉更舒服adv.（副词）In the manner of being; as if. Used as an intensifier of action:像…似的，如同：以某种方式；好象。用于激励行动：例句：worked like hell; ran like crazy.拼命工作；发疯似的跑Informal Probably; likely:【非正式用语】 可能；也许：例句：Like as not she`ll change her mind.很可能她会改主意Non-Standard Used to provide emphasis or a pause:【非标准用语】 用于加强或停顿：例句：Like let`s get going.任我们放纵n.（名词）One similar to or like another. Used withthe : 相似物。和the 连用： 例句：was subject to coughs, asthma, and the like.易得咳嗽、气喘等类似的病Often likes Informal An equivalent or similar person or thing; an equal or match: 常作 likes 【非正式用语】 相似之人，相似之物：相同或类似的人或物；相同之物，对等物：例句：I`ve never seen the likes of this before. We`ll never see his like again.我从没见过这样的事。我们将不会再见到他这类人物conj.Usage Problem （连接词）【用法疑难】 In the same way that; as:以同样方式；象：例句：To dance like she does requires great discipline.要跳得象她那样好得大量的训练As if:似乎：例句：It looks like we`ll finish on time.看起来我们似乎能够按时完成来源：Middle English 中古英语 from like [similar] from Old English geloc Old Norse lokr 源自 like [相似的] 源自 古英语 geloc 古斯堪的纳维亚语 lokr and from like [similarly] from Old English geloce from geloc [similar] * see lok- 并源自 like [相似地] 源自 古英语 geloce 源自 geloc [相似的] *参见 lok- Writers since Chaucer`s time have usedlike as a conjunction, but 9th-century and 20th-century critics have been so vehement in their condemnations of this usage that a writer who uses the construction in formal style risks being accused of illiteracy or worse.Prudence requiresThe dogs howled as (not like ) we expected them to. Likeis more acceptably used as a conjunction in informal style with verbs such as feel, look, seem, sound, and taste, as inIt looks like we are in for a rough winter. But here tooas if is to be preferred in formal writing. There can be no objection to the use oflike as a conjunction when the following verb is not expressed, as inHe took to politics like a duck to water. See Usage Note at as together 自乔叟年代起，作家就把like 当作连接词用， 但9世纪和20世纪的批评家强烈谴责这种用法，在正式文体中使用这种结构的作家就有可能被指责为文盲或者更糟。为谨慎起见，就写狗不象 （而不是 like ） 我们想的那样叫。 Like在非正式文体中可作为连词和动词如 feel, look, seem, sound 及 taste 连用， 如在看起来我们将有一个难熬的冬天 中。 但这句如果出现于正式文体中人们更倾向于用as if 。 如果其后的动词无明确含义时，将like 作为连接词是不会有任何异议的， 如他对政治简直是如鱼得水 参见 astogetherlikelike 3v.aux.Chiefly Southern U.S. （助动词）【多用于美国南部】 To be just on the point of; be or come near to:几乎：处于临界点；在或靠近：例句：I like to have killed him when he said that.当他说那事时我几乎要杀了他来源：Middle English liken [to compare] 中古英语 liken [比较] from like [similar] * see like 2源自 like [相似的，类似的] *参见 like2