We can see that as is being used as a preposition to show comparison, and like is the informal equivalent.

我们能，as当做介词来表示比较，而like就是有同等功能的用于非正式场合的一个词。

Yes, it's very effective, but that's precisely why it's not used as a dye.

是的，它非常有效，但那也正是它无法当做一种染料的原因。

It may have been used as a vomit receptacle.

因为它们有可能会当做痰盂使用。

They're the most precious things that I have, don't take it for granted.

友情是我拥有的最珍贵的东西，千万不要将它当做理所当然。

I learned to treat pain as a cue that a great learning opportunity is at hand, which led me to realize that pain plus reflection equals progress.

我学会了痛苦当做一个信号，一个很好的学习机会就眼前，这让我意识到痛苦加上反思等于进步。

“They are watching the lectures at home as homework, recorded lectures, and when they get to class, they are having more active discussions, or interactions with the teachers or working on projects.”

“他们家观录制的课程当做作业，来到教室时，他们会进行更活跃的讨论，或者与教师互动或做项目。”

At the end of that war, the people of Oslo began sending an annual gift of a Christmas tree for Trafalgar Square.

战争的最后，斯陆的民众一棵圣诞树当做礼物送到特拉法加广场。

Thinking of time as a resource to be maximised means you approach it instrumentally, judging any given moment as well spent only in so far as it advances progress toward some goal.

如果能时间做是一种可最大化利用的资源，那就意味着你能它当做工具来用，并且只有你时刻都向特定目标迈进的时候，你才认为每一刻时间都是用有所值的。

No complaint had been lodged with the police, so that Beddoes had mistaken a threat for a deed.

没有人向警局提出检举，所以贝多斯是德森的威胁当做事实。

He made commercial art that was taken seriously as fine art.

他创作的商业艺术作品获得了正视，当做艺术品待。

But we respect you for expertise, especially in one task.

但是我们都你当做专家一样尊敬，特别是某项工作中。

I'm going to make an almond cake for dessert.

我打算做一份杏仁饼当做甜点。

These menacing claws are used as grappling hooks, not weapons.

这些具有威慑力的爪子用来当做钩子，而不是武器。

In that attack, he was targeted by a suicide bomber.

那次暗杀行动中，他一位自杀式袭击者当做目标。

Well, if you made a guidance system, couldn't you use those vortices as a gyroscope?

如果你建立一个导航系统是不是可以漩涡当做螺旋仪使用？

I don't know… chalk this up as part of the college experience?

你难道就不能… … 这当做大学经历的一部分吗？

With no unkindness meant, we could define shyness as a form of provincialism of the mind and over-attachment to the incidentals of one's own life and experience that unfairly casts others into the role of daunting, unfathomable, unknowable foreigners.

不带任何恶意的，我们可以将害羞定义为一种头脑中的排外主义，过分依赖自己的生活和经验，不公平地将别人当做令人畏惧的、高深莫测的、不可知的外国人。

That's purely a human, you know, a concept that we some are pets, and some are friends, and some are family members, and some are for food.

那只是人类的想法。人类认为有些动物是宠物，有些可以当做朋友，有些是家庭成员，而有些是它们尽情享用的食物。"

All so their modified incisors can be used as a raw material for art in Asia or the bows of string instruments in Europe.

这样一来，加工过的象牙可当做亚洲艺术的原材料或欧洲弦乐器里的饰片。

The Dodo marked a circle for the racecourse and everyone stood anywhere they wanted to.

渡渡鸟早地上画了一个圈当做跑道，而所有人都随意站他们想站的位置。