aping / eɪp /

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aping3 个定义

n. 名词 noun
  1. Anthropology, Zoology. any member of the superfamily Hominoidea, the two extant branches of which are the lesser apes and the great apes.See also catarrhine.
  2. any primate except humans.
  3. an imitator; mimic.
v. 有主动词 verb

aped, ap·ing.

  1. to imitate; mimic: to ape another's style of writing.
adj. 形容词 adjective
  1. Slang. violently emotional: When she threatened to leave him, he went ape.extremely enthusiastic: They go ape over old rock music.We were all ape for the new movie trailer.

aping 近义词

n. 名词 noun

mimicry

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  1. For example, fossils show how apes came to walk upright over millions of years, leading to the evolution of humans.
  2. I worry too for the charismatic species—elephants, whales, dolphins, the great apes—whose habitats are being plundered.
  3. These pie charts tally the methods seven apes used on their crossings.
  4. Murphy had worked with great apes since her first zoo post at Zoo New England in Boston, Mass.
  5. The majority of modern mammals—about 70 percent—aren’t social creatures, Weaver says, and the trait was previously believed to have evolved at the same time as the placental group of mammals, which includes humans and other apes.
  6. His first recordings were a classic case of trying too hard, aping the Bluebird beat.
  7. The person aping me seemed to be a bored young male, possibly living in a suburb.
  8. Because “incidents [like Guwahati] are a result of blindly aping the West.”
  9. The blind aping, of course, that erodes our ever-worshipful Indian culture and drives our ever-respectful men to rape.
  10. We can spend our free time campaigning against sex trafficking, or be a drug-soaked party girl aping the lap dancers.
  11. Varna is such a town as only could have been devised by a nomadic race aping the habits of civilized nations.
  12. The usual meaning of the word to the Greek, as to the modern, seems to be little more than an aping or mimicking.
  13. It is sound, perhaps it may even be fine sound, yet it signifies nothing: it is as the painted face aping true beauty.
  14. Val leaned back in her chair, wondering if Julia was annoyed at Scherer's aping of Ethan.
  15. In Washington the servants are blacks; irresponsible, childlike, aping the vanities of the white people.