It was not that he felt any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler.

这倒并不是说他对艾琳·艾德勒有什么近乎爱情的感情。

Buck had a trick of love expression that was akin to hurt.

巴克表达爱的方式就像要伤人似的。

If manufacturing is akin to science, then services are more like the arts.

如果说制造业类似于科学，那么服务业更像是艺术。

Describing a beautiful wine is, I think, akin to or parallel to describing art.

我认为，要描述葡萄酒的美妙类似或等同于去描述艺术。

There are still huge technological frontiers that need to be overcome here, akin to those we faced when building the early internet.

仍有巨大的技术前沿需要我们去攻克，就像早期建立互联网时候一样。

But at its peak, Tholing housed more than 900 monks and was the largest of Guge's monasteries both in size and influence a power base akin to the Vatican.

但在它的极盛时期，托林寺内有九百多位僧侣，从规模和影响力两方面来说都是古格王朝最大的寺院，是相当于梵谛冈的权力基础。