江西成人高考英语同义词解析三(4)

　　a company of travellers

　　一旅行团。

　　party 指“以某一组织形式、为共同目的而聚集在一起的人”， 如：

　　He saw a party of schoolchildren getting off the bus.

　　他看见一群学生下汽车。

　　gang 指“一群以不良企图或罪 恶目的而聚集在一起的人”， 如：

　　a gang of murders

　　一群杀人犯。

　　faction 指“政党、宗教、政府内部的宗派、小团体”， 如：

　　a petty faction of people

　　小团体的人。

　　Compare usually takes the preposition  to when it refers to the activity of describing the resemblances between unlike things：

　　当它涉及描述不同事物相似性的活动时，Compare常用介词 to：

　　He compared her to a summer day.

　　他将她比为夏天。

　　Scientists sometimes compare the human brain to a computer.It takes  with when it refers to the act of examining two like things in order to discern their similarities or differences：

　　科学家有时将人脑比作电脑。当涉及考察两个相象的事物以辨别他们的相似或差别时，它取 with：

　　The police compared the forged signature with the original.

　　警察将伪造的签名与原来的作比较。

　　The committee will have to compare the Senate's version of the bill with the version that was passed by the House. When  compare is used to mean 搕o liken （one） with another，？with is traditional