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单词 simulacrum
释义
simulacrumsim‧u‧la‧crum /ˌsɪmjəˈleɪkrəm/ noun (plural simulacra /-krə/) [countable + of] formal Word Origin
WORD ORIGINsimulacrum
Origin:
1500-1600 Latin simulare; SIMULATE
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • But Lodge's Rummidge, that reductive simulacrum of Birmingham, was too obviously a conceit for his fictional games.
  • For the face as simulacrum can only refer us to yet another image, there being no true face behind the mask.
  • From the first, our face is a simulacrum, captured in and by the image.
  • His outer housing alone presented astonishing simulacrum in the relaxed pose of the back and shoulders, the realistic voicings.
  • Lit in this way a room is a simulacrum of a dream world.
  • Now that's the kind of hyperreal simulacrum I'd have paid good money to watch.
  • Put simply, a simulacrum is an identical copy without an original.
something that is made to look like another thing
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