| 单词 | imitate |
| 释义 | imitate (once / 152 pages) v When you imitate someone, you copy them. Youth marketers capitalize on kids' desire to imitate––tweens imitate teens, teens imitate young adults, and marketers supply the product lines to make it easy. Humans learn by imitating others. Babies carefully watch their caregivers' lips, learning to imitate the movements they make to create language sounds. Writers often begin their careers imitating the style of older writers they admire. WORD FAMILYimitate: imitated, imitates, imitating, imitation, imitative, imitator, inimitable+/imitation: imitations/imitative: imitatively, nonimitative/imitator: imitators/inimitable: inimitably USAGE EXAMPLESNo matter how much they scouted their opponents, they couldn’t imitate them effectively in practice, because their bench players weren’t good enough. Wall Street Journal(Jan 02, 2017) What I admired most was Baker’s ability to convey a sense of Beckett’s own writing without imitating it. The Guardian(Dec 31, 2016) He is an example of life imitating art, and of political absurdist theater as national policy. Salon(Dec 29, 2016) 1v reproduce someone's behavior or looks The mime imitated the passers-by Syn|Hypo|Hyper copy, simulate conform to, follow behave in accordance or in agreement with mockimitate with mockery and derision take offmimic or imitate in an amusing or satirical manner mime, mimicimitate (a person or manner), especially for satirical effect model, patternplan or create according to a model or models follow, take afterimitate in behavior; take as a model emulatestrive to equal or match, especially by imitating go bybe or act in accordance with ape, caricaturerepresent in or produce a caricature of impersonaterepresent another person with comic intentions burlesque, parody, spoofmake a parody of scalepattern, make, regulate, set, measure, or estimate according to some rate or standard sovietise, sovietizemodel a country's social, political, and economic structure on the Soviet Union reproduce make a copy or equivalent of 2v appear like, as in behavior or appearance Life imitate art Hypo|Hyper ape imitate uncritically and in every aspect emulateimitate the function of (another system), as by modifying the hardware or the software follow suitdo what someone else is doing resemble appear like; be similar or bear a likeness to 3v make a reproduction or copy of Hyper copy, re-create make a replica of |
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