imitate: [16] Latin imitāri meant ‘make a copy of’. It was formed from the base *im-, which also lies behind the Latin ancestors of English emulate [16] and image; all three words share the basic meaning element ‘likeness’. English acquired the word via the Latin past participle imitātus. => emulate, image
imitate (v.)
1530s, a back-formation from imitation or imitator, or else from Latin imitatus. Related: Imitated; imitating. An Old English word for this was ?fterhyrigan.
例文
1. He could imitate in speech or writing most of those he admired.
彼は多くの自分が崇拝しているアイドルの話や作風を真似することができる。
2.I 'd make fun of her dress and imitate her speech.
彼女の服装を冗談にして、彼女の真似をして話す。
3.Some parrots can imitate sounds and repeat words and sentences.