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mimetic

/mi-met-ik, mahy-/US // mɪˈmɛt ɪk, maɪ- //UK // (mɪˈmɛtɪk) //

模仿,拟态,模仿的,模似

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : characterized by, exhibiting, or of the nature of imitation or mimicry: mimetic gestures.
    • : mimic or make-believe.

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Examples

  • You can find a mimetic for things that sort of look like exercise, but I don’t think you’re going to find the big-picture drug or compound that can do the 10 or 15 main things that exercise does for people.

  • So does Meditations in Green, but its incoherence feels purposeful, mimetic.

  • If, however, he was not in a playing mood, he was often asked to give some of his wonderful mimetic imitations.

  • The fact seems to be that ancient and modern Italy possessed the same mimetic faculty and used it in the same fashion.

  • In a powerfully mimetic race like the Italians, the rudiments out of which it was constructed were, as we shall see, indigenous.

  • In the drama, whose origin was the mimetic dance, the rle of women was taken by men.

  • These now gained the upper hand, and finally formed independent mimetic comedies.