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单词 imitate
释义
imitate
verb[T]
uk
/ˈɪm.ɪ.teɪt/us
/ˈɪm.ə.teɪt/
C1
tobehavein asimilarway to someone or somethingelse, or tocopythespeechorbehaviour, etc. of someone or something:
模仿，仿效
Some of theyoungerpopbandstryto imitatetheirmusicalheroesfrom 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。
Theyproduceartificialchemicalswhichexactlyimitateparticularnaturalones.他们生产酷似某些天然物质的人造化学品。
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(Definition ofimitatefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

imitate| American Dictionary

imitate
verb[T]
us
/ˈɪm·ɪˌteɪt/
tocopysomeone’sspeechorbehavior, or tocopysomething as amodel:
My four-year-olddaughteris alwaystryingto imitate heroldersister.
He imitated heraccentperfectly.
(Definition ofimitatefrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofimitate

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They searched for some convincing drum sounds, and experimented with responses that imitated, inverted or varied a call.
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By the same logic, groups that do not adopt appropriate rules, whether by inventing or by imitating them, are likely to decline.
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These productions met the criteria listed above for untrained words except that all productions, imitated, elicited, and spontaneous, were coded.
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Figure 5 shows the number of children who produced different proportions of correct imitated and elicited questions with each auxiliary form.
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In particular, we focus on the task of grasping a book by imitating human movements.
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Candidates include response to corruption scandals and imitating a seemingly successful foreign example.
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In the midst of a forest of legs the mechanical animals seemed toimitatethe kind of gender discrimination pursued by their human counterparts.
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This text works like other magico-ritual texts; its entextualized movement (of tenses) imitates the cosmic end being ritually enacted - magic!
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While this might, at first glance, seem to place music at a disadvantage with respect to painting's ability toimitatenature, the opposite is true.
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The music imitates a general feeling implicit but not expressed in the words, latent but not manifest.
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As the outer sublayers become thinner and more permeable, the inner boundaries begin toimitateconstant-pressure surfaces.
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Thus, perception of action already activates neural structures involved in motor planning of actions to be imitated later.
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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.
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This freed the music from having to be representational, orimitatea particular timbre.
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A simple mechanism could explain how one differentiates activity caused by looking at one's self, another person imitating you, or just another person.
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