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单词 imitate
释义
imitate
(ɪmɪteɪt )
Word forms: imitates , imitating , imitated
1. verb
If you imitate someone, you copy what they do or produce.
...a genuine German musical which does not try to imitate the American model. [VERB noun]
...a precedent which may be imitated by other activists in the future. [VERB noun]
Synonyms: copy, follow, repeat, echo  
2. verb
If you imitate a person or animal, you copy the way they speak or behave, usually because you are trying to be funny.
Clarence screws up his face and imitates the Colonel again. [VERB noun]
Synonyms: do an impression of, take off [informal], mimic, do [informal]  
Collocations:
imitate a sound
It has also been said that the jackalope can convincingly imitate any sound, including the human voice.
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We will attempt to imitate the sound of a plucked string.
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The majority of the music combines the channels to imitate the sound of a synthesized string section.
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Builders of pipe organs have included stops intended to imitate the sound and timbre of the aeolian harp.
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They may also attempt to imitate the sound of each instrument.
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imitate a style
Countless other musicians imitate his style, yet somehow they never work quite as well as the real thing.
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He taught many artists, some of whom did not try to imitate his style.
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Consciously or unconsciously, many other composers have been attempting to imitate his style.
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Often fictional films imitate this style in order to increase their authenticity, especially the mockumentary genre.
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As such, many modern reciters try to imitate his style.
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imitate a voice
The gang would use sound effects and have someone imitate the voice of their 'victim' during the calls.
Times, Sunday Times
In addition, it refers to a phenomenon of nature, namely a hoopoe (while also imitating the voice of the cuckoo).
The Times Literary Supplement
He accurately imitates the voice pitch of his trainers.
The Sun
He imitated my voice and his friends jeered.
Times, Sunday Times
imitate life
But art certainly doesn't imitate life in this regard.
Times, Sunday Times
Previous generations of artists had tried to capture a moment in their paintings, to imitate life in art as vividly as possible.
Times, Sunday Times
Does the series imitate life elsewhere?
Times, Sunday Times
However, art has now imitated life - for their own relationship has ended just months after their on-screen romance turned sour.
The Sun
After all, art imitates life, and pastors are deeply engaged in the business of helping others live well.
Christianity Today
Translations:
Chinese: 模仿
Japanese: 模倣する
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