hold a candle to

基本解釋

• 與……相比；與……媲美 （cannot hold a candle to 不能與其媲美）

英漢例句

雙語例句

• She can't hold a candle To the beauty of your smile.
  在你燦爛的笑容前，她只能自慚形穢。
• She is pretty good, but she can't hold a candle to her mother.
  她相當(dāng)不錯，但還不能與他母親相比。
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• LED does not quite live up to the contrast ratios and colors Plasma displays can create, although they do have excellent image quality and contrast ratios no standard LCD screen can hold a candle to.
  LED 比標(biāo)準(zhǔn) LCD 屏的畫質(zhì)和對比度更好，但還達(dá)不到等離子電視的對比度和色彩。

原聲例句

• The expression meant that the person who cannot hold a candle to you is not fit even to be your servant.

權(quán)威例句

• But none can hold a candle to the father of Asian disaster hotels, Taiwan's Grand Hotel.
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• But none hold a candle to John Quincy Adams, who won with a -10.4% margin of the public vote.
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• Still, no place can hold a candle to Silicon Valley and the Boston area in terms of startup activity, especially in the tech space.
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詞組短語

短語

• hold a candle to another 為別人盡力
• cannot hold a candle to 比不上
• not hold a candle to 不能與某人相提并論
• can 't hold a dle to 不能與;是個常用表達(dá)

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