Simile is applied in （).

A、In politics, a reformer may have just as strong a love of power as a despot.

B、And is it not, perhaps, a drug which—like opium—has to be taken in continually stronger doses to produce the desired effect？

C、When the Arabs, who had been used to living sparingly on a few dates, acquired the riches of the Eastern Roman Empire…

D、What he thought was, “I must have a Navy as good as Grandmamma’s.”

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