| 释义 | parodyparody2 verb (past tense and past participle parodied, present participle parodying) [transitive]    VERB TABLEparody |
 | Present | I, you, we, they | parody |  |  | he, she, it | parodies |  | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | parodied |  | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have parodied |  |  | he, she, it | has parodied |  | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had parodied |  | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will parody |  | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have parodied | 
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 | Present | I | am parodying |  |  | he, she, it | is parodying |  |  | you, we, they | are parodying |  | Past | I, he, she, it | was parodying |  |  | you, we, they | were parodying |  | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been parodying |  |  | he, she, it | has been parodying |  | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been parodying |  | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be parodying |  | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been parodying | 
to copy someone or something in a way that makes people laugh:The movie parodies such classics as "Gone with the Wind" and "Casablanca."
 Barry now parodies himself even better than Spitting Image.For example, the ability to parody a style can be a useful skill.Four of them parody the fire brigade, pecking and pulling a piece of bread.He parodied my groping stumble across the stage to the podium and gathered up the skirt to reveal hairy legs and bloomers.He made toys that parodied her innocent amusements and those of her brothers and she trembled when he raised his leonine voice.Some companies deliberately parodied the new trade-names, safe in the knowledge they would never be taken seriously.Thus language begins to parody itself, and so does literature, as Joyce shows in the Ithaca section of Ulysses.
 His style has often been parodied.—parodist noun [countable] |