compare的用法; compare A to B 及 compare A with B

compare A to B   是把A比作B, 
                                            The writer compared women to water.
                                            作者把女人比作水。


compare A with B   是把A及B做比較; 比較AB相似的地方
                                      Her parents like to compare her with her sister.
                                              她的父母喜歡把她及她妹妹作比較。

"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

Thou art more lovely and more temperate:

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,

And summer's lease hath all too short a date."

William Shakespeare, Sonnet XVIII

Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 - 1616)

 

社區中庭的蓮花及大樓倒影

the water lily and the reflection of the building