simulacrum

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

单词	simulacrum
释义	simulacrum From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishsimulacrumsim‧u‧la‧crum /ˌsɪmjəˈleɪkrəm/ noun (plural simulacra /-krə/) [countable + of] formal PICTUREsomething that is made to look like another thingExamples from the Corpussimulacrum• From the first, our face is a simulacrum, captured in and by the image.• Lit in this way a room is a simulacrum of a dream world.• Put simply, a simulacrum is an identical copy without an original.• For the face as simulacrum can only refer us to yet another image, there being no true face behind the mask.• His outer housing alone presented astonishing simulacrum in the relaxed pose of the back and shoulders, the realistic voicings.• Now that's the kind of hyperreal simulacrum I'd have paid good money to watch.• But Lodge's Rummidge, that reductive simulacrum of Birmingham, was too obviously a conceit for his fictional games.Origin simulacrum (1500-1600) Latin simulare; → SIMULATE
随便看	leaning Leaning Tower of Pisa Leaning Tower of Pisa, the leant leanto leap leap at the chance leap at the chance/opportunity leap at the opportunity leap in the dark leap of faith leap out at leap out at somebody leap to defence leap to defence leap to somebody’s defence leap year leapfrog leapt Lear Lear Lear, Edward Lear, Norman learn learn