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imitated

/im-i-teyt/US // ˈɪm ɪˌteɪt //UK // (ˈɪmɪˌteɪt) //

模仿的,模仿

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v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    im·i·tat·ed, im·i·tat·ing.

    • : to follow or endeavor to follow as a model or example: to imitate an author's style; to imitate an older brother.
    • : to mimic; impersonate: The students imitated the teacher behind her back.
    • : to make a copy of; reproduce closely.
    • : to have or assume the appearance of; simulate; resemble.

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Examples

  • It really felt like a melding of my two worlds—life was imitating art there for sure, and it felt special.

  • Though Cobham-Hervey is Australian, just like the singer, imitating Reddy’s speech patterns wasn’t the easiest task.

  • Others contain materials that imitate part of a disease-causing agent.

  • They imitate the ways in which science works and make claims as if they were scientists because even they recognize the power of a scientific approach.

  • Frauds imitate the ways science works because even they recognize the power of a scientific approach.

  • We are now to get angry simply when whites happily imitate something that minorities do.

  • The idea that when we imitate something we are seeking to replace it rather than join it is weak.

  • The point of art,” writes Eagleton, channeling the Romantics, “is not to imitate life but to transform it.

  • My first reaction upon finishing it was to imitate the unsinkable Ursula and begin all over again.

  • Then, between puffs of cigarette smoke, she began to imitate a mutual friend.

  • Whatever the species, it is well to imitate the natural conditions as much as possible in the way of soil.

  • Let us imitate the example of the Great Powers; they cannot exist alone, however strong and great they may be.

  • Inasmuch as the community is small, and all its inhabitants need the governor and are watching him, they will try to imitate him.

  • She had taken great pains with the table, trying to imitate Mrs. Perkins's, and the imitation was rather satisfactory to herself.

  • Her character became insensibly molded to their forms, and she was inspired with restless enthusiasm to imitate their deeds.