duplicate
verbVerb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they duplicate | |
| he / she / it duplicates | |
| past simple duplicated | |
| past participle duplicated | |
| -ing form duplicating |
- [often passive] duplicate something
to make an exact copy of something 复制；复印；复写 Please keep the duplicated form and send us the original. 请保留表格的副本，把正本寄给我们。 This is a natural look which you can easily duplicate at home. 这是很自然的样式，你可以很容易地在家里复制。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- exactly
- simply
- easily
- …
- duplicate something
to do something again, especially when it is unnecessary （尤指不必要时）重复，再做一次 There's no point in duplicating work already done. 重复别人已经做过的工作毫无意义。 The original experiment cannot be exactly duplicated. 最初的实验不能精确地重现。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- exactly
- simply
- easily
- …
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Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘having two corresponding parts’): from Latin duplicat- ‘doubled’, from the verb duplicare, from duplic- ‘twofold’, from duo ‘two’ + plicare ‘to fold’.