The move, imitating a similar structure in Far eastern cities such as Hong Kong, is designed to increase the number of people using long escalators at the busiest times .
此举模仿香港等远东城市的类似结构, 目的是在最繁忙的时候增加使用自动扶梯的人数。
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基本词汇
vt.仿效；仿制；模仿
名词: imitator 过去式: imitated 过去分词: imitated 现在分词: imitating 第三人称单数: imitates
详情解释
双解释义
英英释义
词典解释
verb
1. make a reproduction or copy of
2. reproduce someone's behavior or looks
e.g. The mime imitated the passers-by
Children often copy their parents or older siblings
Synonym: copysimulate
3. appear like, as in behavior or appearance
e.g. Life imitate art
1. 模仿;仿效;模拟
If you imitate someone, you copy what they do or produce.
e.g. ...a genuine German musical which does not try to imitate the American model.
不刻意模仿美国模式的真正的德国音乐剧
e.g. ...a precedent which may be imitated by other activists in the future.
将来可能会被其他激进分子仿效的先例
2. (为逗乐)戏仿，学…的样子
If you imitate a person or animal, you copy the way they speak or behave, usually because you are trying to be funny.
e.g. Clarence screws up his face and imitates the Colonel again.
克拉伦斯又板起面孔,模仿起上校来。
情景对话
常用例句
词汇搭配
经典引文
The First Class-(第一堂课)
A：Today I had my first English class.
今天我上了第一堂英语课。
B：How was it?
课上得怎样？
A：It was interesting.The teacher gave us three ways to help ourselves learn the language. First, stop talking anything except English. Then learn many complete sentences by heart.Finally, have American friends tell us how they say things we have trouble with, and always imitate them.
很有意思。老师告诉我们有三种方法可帮助我们学习语言。首先，除英语外不要用其他语言谈话。其次。背下大量完整的句子。最后请美国朋友告诉我们，我们在口语中感到困难的那些句子，他们是怎样表达的，并且要一直模仿他们。
In the form and disposition of his..epistles, he imitated the younger Pliny.
出自：GibbonIsn't it intolerable that a person whom we're told to imitate should go round spreading slander.
出自：E. M. Forster词义讲解
词源解说
高考真题例句
The move, imitating a similar structure in Far eastern cities such as Hong Kong, is designed to increase the number of people using long escalators at the busiest times .
此举模仿香港等远东城市的类似结构, 目的是在最繁忙的时候增加使用自动扶梯的人数。
2016上海卷