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单词 imitate
释义
imitate
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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 FAMILY
imitate: imitated, imitates, imitating, imitation, imitative, imitator, inimitable+/imitation: imitations/imitative: imitatively, nonimitative/imitator: imitators/inimitable: inimitably
USAGE EXAMPLES
No 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
mock
imitate with mockery and derision
take off
mimic or imitate in an amusing or satirical manner
mime, mimic
imitate (a person or manner), especially for satirical effect
model, pattern
plan or create according to a model or models
follow, take after
imitate in behavior; take as a model
emulate
strive to equal or match, especially by imitating
go by
be or act in accordance with
ape, caricature
represent in or produce a caricature of
impersonate
represent another person with comic intentions
burlesque, parody, spoof
make a parody of
scale
pattern, make, regulate, set, measure, or estimate according to some rate or standard
sovietise, sovietize
model 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
emulate
imitate the function of (another system), as by modifying the hardware or the software
follow suit
do 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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