by way of analogy

基本解释

This is only by way of analogy.; This is just an analogy.
这不过是个比方。
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By way of analogy, let"s say that you were going to be learning Spanish, Italian, French, or Portuguese."
通过类推的方式，让我们这么说你一直在学的西班牙语、意大利语、法语或者葡萄语。
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To get, by way of analogy, an idea of what Perelman accomplished, imagine that you have no overall picture of the geography of the Earth.
用类比的方法来理解佩雷尔曼所完成的工作。想象这样一个情况，你没有完整的世界地图。

To illustrate by way of analogy: imagine creating a dictionary of French words defined in English to interpret an essay written in French.
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By way of a second analogy, all else being equal, it costs less to build a car that only needs to drive 2, 000 miles, is not subject to any fuel efficiency requirements or emissions limits than it costs to build a car that can drive 200, 000 miles, gets 50 miles per gallon and emits virtually no pollutants.
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