| 单词 | copy |
| 释义 | copy I. 1. obsolete 2. 3. English law a. b. 4. < a book printed in 500 copies > < a rag-paper copy of a newspaper > < a presentation copy > 5. a. archaic b. 6. a. < this is dirty copy > b. < crime makes good copy > c. • - by copy II. transitive verb 1. 2. < when art copies nature > intransitive verb 1. < he copies from Rembrandt > 2. < the document did not copy well > Synonyms: < you gave natives bits to copy under all possible threats against lapses of accuracy — Mary Austin > < later examples of the Greek revival travestied the classic style rather than copied it — American Guide Series: Massachusetts > imitate suggests following a pattern or model in overall qualities or in some specific characteristics, without precluding considerable variations < she slept for hours in the daytime, imitating the cats — Jean Stafford > < plaster was originally painted to imitate marble — American Guide Series: Minnesota > < their pots seem to imitate leather vessels — V.G.Childe > mimic may suggest a copying either exact in emulation of or fidelity to the original or heightened for making sport of or satirizing < he learned to call wild turkeys with a piece of bone through which he was able to mimic the notes of the bird — Van Wyck Brooks > < he attends even to their air, dress, and motions, and imitates them liberally and not servilely; he copies but does not mimic — Earl of Chesterfield > ape likewise may apply to close copying in emulation; often it suggests inept, presumptuous, or servile copying of a better or more worthy original < the pride that apes humility — F.M.Ford > < feudal principalities each aping sovereignty — Will Durant > < the lower classes aped the rigid decorum of their “betters” with laughable results — Harrison Smith > mock usually applies to imitation or repetition with scornful derisive intent < she contended every point, objected to every request, shirked her work, fought with her sisters, mocked her mother — Margaret Mead > < half a dozen jackals went through the compound singing and a hyena stood afar off and mocked them — Rudyard Kipling > burlesque applies to imitation designed to ridicule by grotesque exaggeration < she read these letters aloud, burlesquing them in spite of protests — Katherine Mansfield > < most of the local humor is corny, but it's shrewd, earthy, and droll, burlesquing in its extravagance the pompousness of our national self-esteem — Bergen Evans > III. also per copy • - a copy |
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