analogous詞源

詞源是analog是+字尾ous，中文意思是adj. 相似的，類似的（器官）同功的

例如

Sleep has often been thought of as being in some way analogous to death.人們常常認為睡眠在某種意義上來說類似死亡。

The solar system also has two analogous classes of objects， smaller than planets—namely， asteroids and comets.太陽系也有兩類類似的物體，比行星還小——即小行星和彗星。