If might be an image, a comparison, the finding of likeness between unlike things which is at the heart of metaphor and simile making.

也可能是一个意象，一个对比，在不同之物中寻找到的相同点,而这也是隐喻和明喻的内涵。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

His main research interests are in the areas of comparative political economy with the focus on the developing countries.

他主要的研究领域在于,对比性政治经济,特别是发展中国家的政治经济。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

The simile is there ostensibly to compare Satan with the great sea beast, leviathan. In the comparison of Satan's shield with the moon is the figure of the Tuscan artist, the Tuscan artist being Galileo.

这个明喻很明显是将撒旦和凶猛的海中野兽利维坦，进行了对比，在把撒旦的庇护和月亮的比较之中,突出了那个托斯卡纳艺术家的形象，伽利略。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

But they could also distinguish between phonemic contrasts that are not exemplified in English, such as phonemic contrasts in Czech or Hindi.

但他们也能够区分出,无法在英语中举例的音位对比,比如在捷克语或是印地语中的音位对比

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Contrast this career, encapsulated in those images, with this one.

对比这些图片中简述的他的职业，以及这张。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

So let's compare what some of the similarities and differences are between hydrogen atom orbitals, which we spent a lot of time studying, and now these one electron orbital approximations for these multi-electron atoms.

很长时间的氢原子轨道和,现在多电子原子中,的单个电子轨道近似，我们可以对比，它们之间,的相似性和不同。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

If so how? And once again he puts forward different arguments; in Book II chapter 8 he compares law to other arts and sciences and suggests why sciences such as medicine and has exhibited progress this should be true for law.

如果可以，如何改？同样地,他从不同的角度来推论;,在第，II，册第，8，章中，他对比法律,与其它的艺术与科学,并暗示像医学等科学都已显示进展,法律也理应如此。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Galileo appears in the simile but actually seems to be unnecessary for the general purposes of the comparison.

伽利略在这个明喻中出现了，但明显他对于,这个对比的整体目的来讲是可有可无的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

There's always, and I think this is nearly invariable -there's an element in Milton's similes that stands outside the framework of the basic comparison.

有一点是时常出现并且几乎不变的,-就是在弥尔顿的明喻中始终有一个元素,是从基本的对比框架中脱颖而出的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选