IMITATE

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imitate verb tranzitiv

1. a imita, a copia; a urma de exemplu.

2. a contraface, a falsifica.

3. a mima; a maimuţări.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

Traddles imitated me in the first particular, but did not consider himself a sufficiently old friend to venture on the second.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Why should not I imitate him, and go in by his window?

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

He concluded, that for his own part, he could have been content to keep me in his service as long as I lived; because he found I had cured myself of some bad habits and dispositions, by endeavouring, as far as my inferior nature was capable, to imitate the Houyhnhnms.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

Meg was grateful to see that Miss Kate, though twenty, was dressed with a simplicity which American girls would do well to imitate, and who was much flattered by Mr. Ned's assurances that he came especially to see her.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

Mr. Dick, disturbed by these formidable appearances, but feeling it necessary to imitate them, pulled his hat, with both hands, as firmly over his ears as he possibly could; and instantly took it off again, to welcome Mr. Micawber.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

He was extremely curious to know from what part of the country I came, and how I was taught to imitate a rational creature; because the Yahoos (whom he saw I exactly resembled in my head, hands, and face, that were only visible), with some appearance of cunning, and the strongest disposition to mischief, were observed to be the most unteachable of all brutes.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

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