N. + 처럼 => "like"

Attached to a noun, -처럼 means "someone or something is like some other person or thing." Its meaning is close to -같이. When used after ㄴ/는 것, it means "as if" or "like doing." 
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• 그분은 학자처럼 연구만 한다.
  => Like a scholar, he does only research .
• 여름처럼 꽃이 한창이다.
  => It's like summer; the flowers are in full bloom.
• 언니처럼 동생도 불어를 잘 해요.