| 单词 | ape |
| 释义 | ape (once / 662 pages) 1n 2v 3vn To ape someone is to imitate them, often in a mocking way. Most people don't like being aped. To ape is to imitate, but it can mean a few different things. One type of aping is to blatantly imitate something or someone in every way. That's considered a bad thing because it's so unoriginal — it's a rip-off. Another kind of aping is like a caricature — to ape in this way is a way of making fun or spoofing someone. Either way, you probably don't want to be accused of aping. WORD FAMILYape: aped, apelike, aper, apery, apes, aping+/aper: apers/apery: aperies USAGE EXAMPLESA West Virginia nonprofit director who compared her to an ape in a Facebook post last month lost her job over the comment. Time(Dec 29, 2016) “So let’s prepare a gift for the filthy pigs/apes.” Washington Post(Dec 23, 2016) Great apes demonstrated a mind-reading skill this year that only humans were thought to fully possess. Science Magazine(Dec 22, 2016) 1 1n any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all Hypo|Hyper anthropoid ape any tailless ape of the families Pongidae and Hylobatidae great ape, pongidany of the large anthropoid apes of the family Pongidae lesser apegibbons and siamangs primate any placental mammal of the order Primates; has good eyesight and flexible hands and feet 2n person who resembles a nonhuman primate 2Syn|Hyper anthropoid misfit someone unable to adapt to their circumstances v represent in or produce a caricature of 3Syn|Hyper caricature mock imitate with mockery and derision 1v imitate uncritically and in every aspect Her little brother apes her behavior Hyper imitate appear like, as in behavior or appearance 2n someone who copies the words or behavior of another Syn|Hypo|Hyper aper, copycat, emulator, imitator epigon, epigone an inferior imitator of some distinguished writer or artist of musician parrota copycat who does not understand the words or acts being imitated individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul a human being |
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