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imitating

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

模仿,模仿性,模仿的,模仿者

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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

  • When he adjusted the field to imitate those in the open ocean west of Africa, the turtles swam toward the northwest, likewise ostensibly enabling them to remain within the gyre.

  • Have your partner stay in the guest room and imitate the kind of noises likely to come out of a typical lovemaking session.

  • To call Takashi Murakami just an artist is missing the point because when life starts to imitate art, it’s more than all of that.

  • That phrase may imitate the majestic gait of profundity, but it’s really just a colorful balloon animal.

  • We’re not trying to imitate, we’re just driven by pure passion and what our players like.

  • And it is strange that, yeah, the art imitating life and vice versa is something that people are really interested in.

  • He was imitating life and he had these tremendous insights over a huge range.

  • Mueller sings straightforwardly, in the lower end of the register—channeling King without imitating her.

  • One thinks of art imitating life imitating art, and all the chaos that can bring.

  • After a 2-year-old dressed as a tiger and visited the tiger exhibit at the zoo, the real tiger began imitating the boy.

  • That remained for M. Dolland, a celebrated physician, to do; and he did it by studying and imitating the formation of the eye.

  • The nave is modern (by Street, 1877), imitating the choir of the 14th century, with its curious skeleton-vaulting in the aisles.

  • In one respect, however, our poets have been far from imitating the great German.

  • Her teacher said he had never seen surpassed her genius of imitating the roundness and softness of flesh.

  • Can it be wondered that Elizabeth conceived the idea of imitating her sister's policy and forming a "plantation" in the North?