| 词汇 | imitate |
| 释义 | imitate verb[ T ] uk /ˈɪm.ɪ.teɪt/ us /ˈɪm.ə.teɪt/ C1 to behave in a similar way to someone or something else, or to copy the speech or behaviour, etc. of someone or something: 模仿，仿效 Some of the younger pop bands try to imitate their musical heroes from the past.一些较年轻的流行乐队极力模仿心目中昔日的音乐巨星。 They produce artificial chemicals which exactly imitate particular natural ones.他们生产酷似某些天然物质的人造化学品。 Copying and copies anti-counterfeiting anti-piracy ape biomimicry blueprint emulatively emulous emulously faux forge mimetic photocopiable photocopy photostat photostatic piracy transcript virtualization warmed-over Xerox imitate | American Dictionaryimitate verb[ T ] us/ˈɪm·ɪˌteɪt/ to copy someone’s speech or behavior, or to copy something as a model: My four-year-old daughter is always trying to imitate her older sister. He imitated her accent perfectly. Examples of imitateimitate They searched for some convincing drum sounds, and experimented with responses that imitated, inverted or varied a call. By the same logic, groups that do not adopt appropriate rules, whether by inventing or by imitating them, are likely to decline. These productions met the criteria listed above for untrained words except that all productions, imitated, elicited, and spontaneous, were coded. Figure 5 shows the number of children who produced different proportions of correct imitated and elicited questions with each auxiliary form. In particular, we focus on the task of grasping a book by imitating human movements. Candidates include response to corruption scandals and imitating a seemingly successful foreign example. In the midst of a forest of legs the mechanical animals seemed to imitate the kind of gender discrimination pursued by their human counterparts. This text works like other magico-ritual texts; its entextualized movement (of tenses) imitates the cosmic end being ritually enacted - magic! While this might, at first glance, seem to place music at a disadvantage with respect to painting's ability to imitate nature, the opposite is true. The music imitates a general feeling implicit but not expressed in the words, latent but not manifest. As the outer sublayers become thinner and more permeable, the inner boundaries begin to imitate constant-pressure surfaces. Thus, perception of action already activates neural structures involved in motor planning of actions to be imitated later. It may be the case that the diffusion of privatisation was the result merely of imitating the policies of others and their fads and fashions. This freed the music from having to be representational, or imitate a particular timbre. A simple mechanism could explain how one differentiates activity caused by looking at one's self, another person imitating you, or just another person. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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