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imitator

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

模仿者,仿造者,仿冒者,模拟者

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Definitions

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

  • In many ways they imitate and exceed the cruelty and punitive pugilism of the leader they love so much.

  • So imitating royal funerary practices may have been a display of social status.

  • Happy lamps are designed to imitate natural sunlight and correct disturbances to the circadian rhythm.

  • The team’s shot selection combined Morey’s algorithms with the star who embodied them more than any other NBA player ever has — an approach that came to be often imitated but never perfected like the Rockets at their peak.

  • The category, for which IBM received 2,789 patents last year, appears to span a wide variety of inventions related to so-called neural networks and other techniques that imitate brain functions.

  • My imitator had hundreds of followers—more than I did at the time.

  • Twitter required an old-fashioned fax of a government-issued ID before it would delete the imitator account.

  • And The Voice Imitator by Thomas Bernhard is really interesting.

  • Perhaps the most odd performance was that of "Cat Harris," an imitator of the voice of cats in 1747.

  • I have entered upon a performance which is without example, whose accomplishment will have no imitator.

  • In the latter I was a close imitator—rather doing as others had done, than putting down the suggestions of my own mind.

  • Can you believe that I once had a well-deserved reputation in several nurseries as a farmyard imitator?

  • M. Decorde calls him an imitator of Alfred de Musset, who was sometimes successful!