盎格鲁-撒克逊人对诺曼人来说就像妻管严对溺爱妻子的人一样。

Anglo-Saxon was to Norman as hen-pecked to uxorious.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 盎格鲁 Àng Anglo-
=2 撒克逊人 xùnrén Saxon (people)
=2 撒克逊人 xùnrén Saxon; a member of an ancient West Germanic tribe that lived at the eastern North Sea coast and south of it
3 duì
  1. right; correct
  2. towards; at; for
  3. concerning; regarding
  4. to treat (sb a certain way)
  5. to face
  6. (bound form) opposite; facing; matching
  7. to match together; to adjust
  8. to fit; to suit
  9. to answer; to reply
  10. to add; to pour in (a fluid)
  11. to check; to compare
  12. classifier: couple; pair
=4 诺曼人 Nuòmànrén Normans (people)
=4 诺曼人 nuòmànrén Norman (a member of the mixed Scandinavian and Frankish peoples who settled in Normandy from about AD 912)
5 来说 láishuō concerning; about
6 就像 jiùxiàng to be just like; to be similar to; as if; as though
7 妻管严 guǎnyán henpecked male
8 duì
  1. right; correct
  2. towards; at; for
  3. concerning; regarding
  4. to treat (sb a certain way)
  5. to face
  6. (bound form) opposite; facing; matching
  7. to match together; to adjust
  8. to fit; to suit
  9. to answer; to reply
  10. to add; to pour in (a fluid)
  11. to check; to compare
  12. classifier: couple; pair
=9 溺爱 ài
  1. to spoil
  2. to pamper
  3. to dote on
=9 溺爱 nì'ài to love someone excessively (especially in a foolish way); to dote on; to pamper (one's child); to spoil
=10 妻子 wife and children
=10 妻子 zi wife
=11 de
  1. of; ~'s (possessive particle)
  2. (used after an attribute when it modifies a noun)
  3. (used at the end of a declarative sentence for emphasis)
  4. (used after a noun, verb or adjective to form a nominal expression, as in 皮革的 de "one made of leather" or 跑堂儿的 pǎotángrde "a waiter (literally, one who runs back and forth in a restaurant)" or 新的 xīnde "new one")
  5. also pr. or di in poetry and songs
=11 a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士 shì)
=11 really and truly
=11 (bound form) bull's-eye; target
12 rén person; people

classifiers: ,

13 一样 yàng
  1. same
  2. like
  3. equal to
  4. the same as
  5. just like