| 词汇 | aped |
| 释义 | aped past simple and past participle ofape ape verb[ T ] disapprovinguk /eɪp/ us /eɪp/ to copy something or someone badly and unsuccessfully: （拙劣地）模仿 He called the new building unoriginal and said that it merely aped the classical traditions.他称这座新楼的风格毫无新意，并说它只不过是对古典传统建筑的拙劣模仿。 Copying and copies anti-counterfeiting anti-piracy ape biomimicry blueprint emulous emulously facsimile faux forge forgery mail merge mimetic photocopy photostat photostatic piracy pirate transcript Xerox Examples of apedaped In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. And yet, in many respects, relationships between nuns and male clergy aped relationships between married women and men. They were depicted as ambitious upstarts who crudely aped noble manners; their liminal status between the pure types of noble and commoner made them appear repulsively "mongrelized" (p. 25). The westernized nouveaux riches aped the colonists. Our privatisation programme is aped around the world, to continue my somewhat dubious metaphor. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am also fearful that involvement by the supermarkets could well be aped by smaller discount shopping chains and by newsagents. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We set up the colleges of advanced technology because of that, but to some extent they, too, aped the university world, although not all of them have done so. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The corporate methods of developing our new and expanded towns need to be adapted—not aped—and applied to the problems of urban renewal in the old areas. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 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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