Imitate
['ɪmɪteɪt] or ['ɪmɪtet]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) make a reproduction or copy of.
(verb.) reproduce someone's behavior or looks; 'The mime imitated the passers-by'; 'Children often copy their parents or older siblings'.
(verb.) appear like, as in behavior or appearance; 'Life imitate art'.
埃斯特尔校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To follow as a pattern, model, or example; to copy or strive to copy, in acts, manners etc.
(v. t.) To produce a semblance or likeness of, in form, character, color, qualities, conduct, manners, and the like; to counterfeit; to copy.
(v. t.) To resemble (another species of animal, or a plant, or inanimate object) in form, color, ornamentation, or instinctive habits, so as to derive an advantage thereby; sa, when a harmless snake imitates a venomous one in color and manner, or when an odorless insect imitates, in color, one having secretion offensive to birds.
安娜校對
同義詞及近義詞:
v. a. [1]. Copy, follow, pattern after.[2]. Mimic, ape, mock, personate, impersonate, take off.[3]. Parody, travesty, turn into burlesque.
編輯:梅尔维尔
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Represent, copy, resemble, follow, portray, depict, repeat, pattern_after,mock, ape, counterfeit, mimic
ANT:Misrepresent, caricature, alter, vary, dissimilate, differentiate, modify,remodel, distort
編輯:特伦斯
解釋/意思:
v.t. to copy to strive to be the same as: to produce a likeness of.—n. Imitabil′ity.—adj. Im′itable that may be imitated or copied: worthy of imitation.—n. Im′itancy the tendency to imitate.—adj. Im′itant.—n. Imitā′tion act of imitating: that which is produced as a copy a likeness: (mus.) the repeating of the same passage or the following of a passage with a similar one in one or more of the other parts or voices.—adj. Im′itātive inclined to imitate: formed after a model.—adv. Im′itātively.—ns. Im′itātiveness the quality of being imitative; Im′itātor one who imitates or copies.
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例句/造句/用法:
- The young would imitate their elders in this task. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- For the object of democracy is not to imitate the rhythm of the stars but to harness political power to the nation's need. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- And this is equally true of imitation; no one man can imitate many things as well as he would imitate a single one? 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- Naturally enough what he tried to do was to imitate the action of the hand in sewing. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- I allude to the wonderful manner in which certain butterflies imitate, as first described by Mr. Bates, other and quite distinct species. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- According to this theory, social control of individuals rests upon the instinctive tendency of individuals to imitate or copy the actions of others. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Endeavouring to imitate the voice of an old duenna, Argyle begged to know who was at the door. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- Can a man help imitating that with which he holds reverential converse? 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- Ellsworth possessed in a remarkable degree the skill of imitating these peculiarities, and thus he deceived the Union operators easily. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- The reasoning is perilously like that of the gifted lady amateur who expects to achieve greatness by imitating the paint box and palette, oils and canvases of an artist. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Looked at from without, they might be said to be engaged in imitating one another. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Then he said, It's not respectful, sir, of you younkers to be imitating of your relations. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- I don't k-n-o-w t-h-a-t, I rejoined, imitating Meyler. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- So, then, said Eliza, imitating the motion,--and I must stamp, and take long steps, and try to look saucy. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- He gave me a lesson: I diligently imitated. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- He imitated the action of a man's being impelled forward by the butt-ends of muskets. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- Here Mr. Muzzle, who had a great notion of his eloquence, in which he imitated his master, paused for a reply. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- The institution soon manifested its utility; was imitated by other towns and in other provinces. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- He imitated it, evidently from the direction of a letter, and asked me what it meant. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- I had had no intercourse with the world at that time, and I imitated none of its many inhabitants who act in this manner. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- Such a character of God, if not ridiculed by our young men, is likely to be imitated by them. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- And he imitates the means because he wishes, on his own behalf, as part of his own initiative, to take an effective part in the game. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- It always seems curious to watch the satisfaction of some reform magazines when China or Turkey or Persia imitates the constitutional forms of Western democracies. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- If he closely imitates the narratives which he has before rendered successful, he is doomed to wonder that they please no more. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- He imitates the means of doing, not the end or thing to be done. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Thus far then we are pretty well agreed that the imitator has no knowledge worth mentioning of what he imitates. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- The mockers and mocked always inhabit the same region; we never find an imitator living remote from the form which it imitates. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- The painter imitates not the original bed, but the bed made by the carpenter. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
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