compare
verb [ T ] uk/kəmˈpeər/ us/kəmˈper/
(EXAMINE DIFFERENCES)
B1 对比，对照，比较
to examine or look for the difference between two or more things
If you compare house prices in the two areas, it's quite amazing how different they are. 如果比较一下两个地段的房价，你会惊讶地发现它们的差别竟如此之大。
That seems expensive - have you compared prices in other shops? 那好像很贵——你有没有比较一下其他店里的价格？
Compare some recent work with your older stuff and you'll see how much you've improved. 把你近来的作品与以前的对照一下，你就会知道你的进步有多大。
This road is quite busy compared to/with ours. 与我们那条路相比，这条路很繁忙。
Children seem to learn more interesting things compared to/with when we were at school. 与我们上学时相比，孩子们现在学的有趣的东西似乎更多一些。
- More examples
- If you compare the two books side by side, it is clear that the author of the second has plagiarized (from the first).
- The number of people who applied for the course was 120 compared with an initial estimate of between 50 and 100.
- I thought myself very sophisticated compared with my relatives in the country.
- This matter really isn't very important if you compare it to the other problems we've got to deal with.
- The judges compared all the cakes in the cake competition for taste, texture, colour and general appearance.
(CONSIDER SIMILARITIES)
将…比作；拿…与…相比；认为…和…相似（或不相上下）
to judge, suggest, or consider that something is similar or of equal quality to something else
The poet compares his lover's tongue to a razor blade. 诗人把他恋人的舌头比作剃须刀刀片。
Still only 25, she has been compared to the greatest dancer of all time. 她才25岁就被誉为有史以来最伟大的舞蹈家。
People compared her to Elizabeth Taylor. 人们把她比作伊丽莎白‧泰勒。
You can't compare the two cities - they're totally different. 你不能把这两座城市相提并论——它们完全不同。
does not compare 不能比，比不上
If something or someone does not compare with something or someone else, the second thing is very much better than the first.
Instant coffee just doesn't compare with freshly ground coffee. 速溶咖啡根本比不上现磨的咖啡。
compare favourably 比起来要好，比得过
If something compares favourably with something else, it is better than it.
The hotel certainly compared favourably with the one we stayed in last year. 这家酒店当然比我们去年住的那家要好。
Idiom
compare notesidiom C1 交换看法，交流意见
If two people compare notes, they tell each other what they think about something they have both done.
We'd both been out with the same man at different points in our lives so it was interesting to compare notes. 我俩在人生的不同时期和同一个男人约会过，所以交流一下看法很有意思。
compare
noun literary uk/kəmˈpeər/ us/kəmˈper/
beyond compare 无与伦比；无可比拟；举世无双
so good that everyone or everything else is of worse quality
Her beauty is beyond compare. 她的美丽无与伦比。