imitate是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. 模仿, 仿效; 仿制, 仿造，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There every acquaintance appears and speaks upon the stage, so entirely in charac-ter, and with the same tone of voice, that none of us, when awake, were able to imitate it.
-- And if his grandmoth-er told them stories, he always interrupted her; besides, if he could manage it, he would get behind her, put on her spectacles, and imitate her way of speaking; he copied all her ways, and then everybody laughed at him.
-- He was soon able to imitate the gait and manner of everyone in the street.
-- No one can imitate you.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She saw that Kitty did not merely imitate Varenka in her conduct, but unconsciously imitated her in her manner of walking, of talking, of blinking her eyes.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They were held in an amphitheater whose seats curved so far around that the lecturer could not see both ends at once, and while Dr. Robertshaw, continuing to drone about blood circulation, was peering to the right to find out who was making that outrageous sound like a motor horn, far over on the left Clif Clawson would rise and imitate him, with sawing arm and stroking of imaginary whiskers.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was a titter, and some applause, but Mr. Mell was so white,that silence immediately succeeded; and one boy, who had dartedout behind him to imitate his mother again, changed his mind, andpretended to want a pen mended.
-- Mr. Dick, disturbed by these formidableappearances, but feeling it necessary to imitate them, pulled hishat, with both hands, as firmly over his ears as he possibly could;and instantly took it off again, to welcome Mr. Micawber.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She thought her the model of all excellence and endeavoured to imitate her phraseology and manners, so that even now she often re-minds me of her.
-- Sometimes I tried to imitate the pleasant songs of the birds but was unable.
-- 'My days were spent in close attention, that I might more speedily master the language; and I may boast that I im-proved more rapidly than the Arabian, who understood very little and conversed in broken accents, whilst I com-prehended and could imitate almost every word that was spoken.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But my good master Bates dying in two years after, and I having few friends, my business began to fail; for my con-science would not suffer me to imitate the bad practice of too many among my brethren.
-- But in justice to this prince's great clemency, and the care he has of his subjects' lives (where-in it were much to be wished that the Monarchs of Europe would imitate him), it must be mentioned for his honour, that strict orders are given to have the infected parts of the floor well washed after every such execution, which, if his domestics neglect, they are in danger of incurring his roy-al displeasure.
-- 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.'
-- At which times they would approach as near as they durst, and imitate my actions after the manner of monkeys, but ever with great signs of hatred; as a tame jackdaw with cap and stockings is always persecuted by the wild ones, when he happens to be got among them.
-- By conversing with the Houyhnhnms, and looking upon them with delight, I fell to imitate their gait and gesture, which is now grown into a habit; and my friends often tell me, in a blunt way, 'that I trot like a horse;' which, however, I take for a great com-pliment.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The wide stare stared itself out for one while; the Sun went down in a red, green, golden glory; the stars came out in the heavens, and the fire-flies mimicked them in the lower air, as men may feebly imitate the goodness of a better order of beings; the long dusty roads and the interminable plains were in repose and so deep a hush was on the sea, that it scarcely whispered of the time when it shall give up its dead.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It suited her exactly, and soon she began to imitate the man-ners and conversation of those about her, to put on little airs and graces, use French phrases, crimp her hair, take in her dresses, and talk about the fashions as well as she could.
-- I rather enjoy this, and now I'll imitate what is called 'a charming girl'.
-- The boy early developed a mechanical genius which delighted his father and distracted his mother, for he tried to imitate every machine he saw, and kept the nursery in a chaotic condition, with his 'sewinsheen', a mysterious structure of string, chairs, clothespins, and spools, for wheels to go 'wound and wound'.
-- Prone upon the floor lay Mr. March, with his respectable legs in the air, and beside him, likewise prone, was Demi, trying to imitate the attitude with his own short, scarlet-stockinged legs, both grovelers so seriously absorbed that they were unconscious of spectators, till Mr. Bhaer laughed his sonorous laugh, and Jo cried out, with a scandalized face... 'Father, Father, here's the Professor!'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'It was about half-past two,' said Mr. Giles, 'or I wouldn't swear that it mightn't have been a little nearer three, when I woke up, and, turning round in my bed, as it might be so, (here Mr. Giles turned round in his chair, and pulled the corner of the table-cloth over him to imitate bed-clothes,) I fancied I heerd a noise.'
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With a glance, she saw that he had lost none of his recent civility; and, to imitate his politeness, she began, as they met, to admire the beauty of the place; but she had not got beyond the words 'delightful,' and 'charming,' when some unlucky recollections obtruded, and she fancied that praise of Pemberley from her might be mischievously construed.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Did I imitate your forbearance, or lessen your restraints, by taking any part in those offices of general complaisance or particular gratitude which you had hitherto been left to discharge alone? No; not less when I knew you to be unhappy, than when I had believed you at ease, did I turn away from every exertion of duty or friendship; scarcely allowing sorrow to exist but with me, regretting only that heart which had deserted and wronged me, and leaving you, for whom I professed an unbounded affection, to be miserable for my sake."
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