mimic
verbto copy the way somebody speaks, moves, behaves, etc., especially in order to make other people laugh 模仿（某人的言行舉止）；（尤指）做滑稽模仿 - mimic somebody/something
She's always mimicking the teachers. 她總喜歡模仿老師的言談舉止。 He mimicked her southern accent. 他滑稽地模仿她的南方口音。 - + speech
‘It's not fair!’ she mimicked. “這不公平，”。她模仿着。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- accurately
- closely
- exactly
- …
- try to
- mimic somebody/something
- mimic something (specialist or formal)
to look or behave like something else （外表或行爲舉止）像，似 The robot was programmed to mimic a series of human movements. 機器人按程序設計可模仿人的一系列動作。 Scientists have created a vaccine that mimics the virus. 科學家已制造出一種與該病毒相似的疫苗。 The computer model is able to mimic very closely the actions of a golfer. 這個計算機模型能夠非常逼真地模仿高爾夫球手的各種動作。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- accurately
- closely
- exactly
- …
- try to
Word Originlate 16th cent. (as noun and adjective): via Latin from Greek mimikos, from mimos ‘mime’.