imitated
past simple and past participle ofimitate
| 单词 | imitated |
| 释义 | imitated past simple and past participle ofimitate 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: Some of theyoungerpopbandstryto imitatetheirmusicalheroesfrom the past. Theyproduceartificialchemicalswhichexactlyimitateparticularnaturalones. Copying and copies
Examplesofimitatedimitated In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Thus, perception of action already activates neural structures involved in motor planning of actions to beimitatedlater. From theCambridge English Corpus An examination of patents for machinery shows that most were not radically new inventions, but closelyimitatedfamiliar techniques for manufacturing bricks by hand. From theCambridge English Corpus The original world-making power, physis, degenerates into a prototype to be copied andimitated. From theCambridge English Corpus They may haveimitatedthe action, or seen the product and attempted to reproduce it, or have repeated their accidental discovery. From theCambridge English Corpus We see that defectors obtain a higher payoff, so they have a higher probability of beingimitated. From theCambridge English Corpus When a phoneme was evident inimitatedspeech, it was consistently evident in both languages simultaneously. From theCambridge English Corpus Institutions of more successful societies tend to beimitatedby less successful ones. From theCambridge English Corpus Strategies of co-residence initially developed by migrants were laterimitatedby locally born inhabitants. From theCambridge English Corpus In the autism group half of the subjectsimitatedunreliably. From theCambridge English Corpus Nonverbally, they evidenced memory for events that they hadimitated, as well as for events that they had only watched. From theCambridge English Corpus First, he suggests that some movements are much more easilyimitatedthan others, according to the species. From theCambridge English Corpus This is the strategy that we haveimitatedwith the robot. From theCambridge English Corpus This ideology infused his music as heimitatedan alien machine with his monotone vocals. From theCambridge English Corpus An ideal can certainly be inaccessible in time, space or genius; being there not to beimitatedbut to elevate to light a hope. From theCambridge English Corpus As the model proved successful, othersimitatedit, but the first followers largely failed. From theCambridge English Corpus 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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